Antipodean Antiquities

Marguerite Johnson is Professor of Classics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia. She is the author of Ovid on Cosmetics (Bloomsbury, 2015), co-editor (with Harold Tarrant) of Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator (Bloomsbury, 2012) and co-author (with Terry Ryan) of Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook (2005).

• List of Figures List of ContributorsIntroduction (Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia)Part 1: The Colonial Past – Classical Influences in White Australasia1. Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand2. Rachael White (University of Oxford, UK): Australia as Underworld: Convict Classics in the Nineteenth CenturyPart 2: Theatre – Then and Now 3. Laura Ginters (University of Sydney, Australia): Agamemnon comes to the Antipodes: The Origins of Student Drama at the University of Sydney4. John Davidson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Salamis and Gallipoli: The Campaigns of Phillip Mann5. Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Wesley Enoch's Black Medea6. Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University, Australia): What Women Critics Know that Men Don'tPart 3: Poetry and Classical Echoes in New Zealand7. Geoffrey Miles (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): James K. Baxter and the Gorgon Moon8. Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Clodia Through the Looking GlassPart 4: Fictionalizing Antipodean Antiquities9. Nicolas Liney (University of Oxford, UK): Parilia Poscor - David Malouf Remembers the Parilia (Fasti 4.721)10. Elizabeth Hale (University of New England, Australia): Imaginative Displacement: Classical Reception in the Young Adult Fiction of Margaret Mahy 11. Babette Pütz (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Influences in Bernard Beckett's Genesis, August, and Lullaby12. Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney, Australia): Displaced Persons and Displaced Narratives in S. D. Gentill's Hero TrilogyPart 5: Australasia, Greece and Rome - Paper and Canvas13. Sarah Midford (La Trobe University, Australia): Painting Anzacs in an Epic Landscape: Greek Myth, the Trojan War and Sidney Nolan’s Gallipoli Series14. Melinda Johnston (independent scholar) and Thomas Köntges (University of Leipzig, Germany): Of Heroes and Humans: Marian Maguire's Colonization of Herakles' Mythical WorldPart 6: Antiquity on the Australasian Screen15. Ika Willis (University of Wollongong, Australia): Temporal Turbulence: Reception Studies(') Now 16. Hannah Parry (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Epic in Peter Jackson's Middle-Earth Trilogies 17. Leanne Glass (University of Newcastle, Australia): Shifting Paradigms in Ben Ferris’ PenelopeNotesBibliographyIndex

This is a timely book, given current debates about teaching ‘western civilisation’ in our universities. It represents a coming-of-age particularly in Australian classical reception studies, and it will surely be a stimulus to bring less descriptive and more theoretically innovative approaches to bear on the myriad forms of classical reception that saturate Australasia.