Athens to Aotearoa : Greece and Rome in New Zealand literature and society / edited by Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum ; with assistance from Tim Smith.
What if Cyclops was alive and well and living in a cave in Invercargill? / Witi Ihimaera -- Girls going underground: navigating mythologies in Aotearoa's literary landscape / Karen Healey -- 'I, Clodia': I had a dream I was a ghost / Anna Jackson -- A fabricated history of Greco-New Zealand interaction / Marian Maguire -- Discussions with mountains in Marian Maguire's 'A Taranaki dialogue' / Greta Hawes -- Julius Caesar in 'Xena: Warrior Princess' / Tom Stevenson -- Orpheus, Mà„ui and the underworld in New Zealand literature / Simon Perris -- The darkly recurrent and improbable dream: James K. Baxter and the Venus/Anchises story / Geoff Miles -- Dionysus, Chris and the publican: Ambiguous gods in 'The day that Flanagan died' / Sharon Matthews -- C. K. Stead writes Catullus: Persona, intention, intratext and allusion / Maxine Lewis -- Horace, Catullus, Virgil, Lucretius and Mason / John Davidson -- Anna Seward's 'Elegy on Captain Cook' / Peter Whiteford -- The reception of the Classical tradition in New Zealand war reporting and memory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Matthew Trundle -- Classical subjects in schools: A comparative study of New Zealand and the United Kingdom / Arlene Holmes-Henderson.
Summary:
What do ancient Greece and Rome have to do with New Zealand? More than you might think. Athens to Aotearoa collects essays from some of New Zealand's most important artistic voices reflecting on their engagement with Greece and Rome, and shows literary and cultural critics taking aim at New Zealand's ongoing, sometimes fraught, and always complicated take on its classical heritage"--Back cover.
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