List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction (Marguerite Johnson, University of Newcastle, Australia) Part 1: The Colonial Past - Classical Influences in White Australasia 1. Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Black Out: Classicizing Indigeneity in Australia and New Zealand 2. Rachael White (University of Oxford, UK): Australia as Underworld: Convict Classics in the Nineteenth Century Part 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 Sydney 4. John Davidson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Salamis and Gallipoli: The Campaigns of Phillip Mann 5. Michael Ewans (University of Newcastle, Australia) and Marguerite Johnson (University of Newcastle, Australia): Wesley Enoch's Black Medea 6. Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Monash University, Australia): What Women Critics Know that Men Don't Part 3: Poetry and Classical Echoes in New Zealand 7. Geoffrey Miles (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): James K. Baxter and the Gorgon Moon 8. Anna Jackson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Clodia Through the Looking Glass Part 4: Fictionalizing Antipodean Antiquities 9. 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 Putz (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand): Classical Influences in Bernard Beckett's Genesis, August, and Lullaby 12. Anne Rogerson (University of Sydney, Australia): Displaced Persons and Displaced Narratives in S. D. Gentill's Hero Trilogy Part 5: Australasia, Greece and Rome - Paper and Canvas 13. Sarah Midford (La Trobe University, Australia): Painting Anzacs in an Epic Landscape: Greek Myth, the Trojan War and Sidney Nolan's Gallipoli Series 14. Melinda Johnston (independent scholar) and Thomas Koentges (University of Leipzig, Germany): Of Heroes and Humans: Marian Maguire's Colonization of Herakles' Mythical World Part 6: Antiquity on the Australasian Screen 15. 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' Penelope Notes Bibliography Index