Athens to Aotearoa - Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society

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 and critical voices reflecting on their engagement with Greece and Rome and taking aim at New Zealand?s ongoing, sometimes fraught, and always complicated take on its classical heritage.

Athens to Aotearoa is an illuminating and provocative collection for any reader interested in the various relationships between classics, art, literature and New Zealand identity.

Chapters:

Witi Ihimaera: What if Cyclops was Alive and Well and Living in a Cave in Invercargill?
Karen Healey: Girls Going Underground: Navigating Mythologies in Aotearoa?s Literary Landscape
Anna Jackson: ?I, Clodia?: I had a Dream I was a Ghost
Marian Maguire: A Fabricated History of Graeco-New Zealand Interaction
Greta Hawes: Discussions with Mountains in Marian Maguire?s A Taranaki Dialogue
Tom Stevenson: Julius Caesar in Xena: Warrior Princess
Simon Perris: Orpheus, M?ui and the Underworld in New Zealand Literature
Geoff Miles: ?The Darkly Recurrent and Improbable Dream?: James K. Baxter and the Venus/Anchises Story
Sharon Matthews: Dionysus, Christ and the Publican: Ambiguous Gods in The Day That Flanagan Died
Peter Whiteford: Anna Seward?s Elegy on Captain Cook
Maxine Lewis: C.K. Stead Writes Catullus: Persona, Intention, Intratext and Allusion
John Davidson: Horace, Catullus, Lucretius and Mason
Matthew Trundle: The Reception of the Classical Tradition in New Zealand War Reporting and Memory in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
Arlene Holmes-Henderson: Classical Subjects in Schools: A Comparative Study of New Zealand and the United Kingdom