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Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society, ed. Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2017. 362 pp. ISBN 9781776561766. $40. Anna Jackson, Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2018. 148 pp. ISBN 9781869408794. $34.99.

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Notes

  1. Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire, ed. M. Bradley, Oxford, 2010; Classics and Colonialism, ed. B. Goff, London, 2005; E. Greenwood, Afro-Greeks: Dialogues between Anglophone Caribbean Literature and Classics in the Twentieth Century, Oxford, 2010; L. Hardwick, ‘Greek Drama and Anti-Colonialism’, in Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, ed. E. Hall, F. Macintosh and A. Wrigley, Oxford, 2004, pp. 220–42; Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds, ed. L. Hardwick and C. Gillespie, Oxford, 2007; African Athena: New Agendas, ed. D. Orrells, G. K. Bhambra and T. Roynon, Oxford, 2011; P. Vasunia, Classics and Colonial India: Classical Presences, Oxford, 2013.

  2. Attested by the ‘Works Cited’ at the end of chapters, which shows the predominance of New Zealand scholarly presses.

  3. A. Jackson, I, Clodia, and Other Portraits, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2014.

  4. A. Jackson, Catullus for Children, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2003.

  5. A. Jackson, ‘My Friendship with Mayakovsky’, in AUP New Poets, I, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1999, pp. 60-6.

  6. ‘Part One’ has selections from the following suites in the following order: ‘My Friendship with Mayakovsky’; ‘The Long Road to Teatime’; ‘Teatime with the Timorese’; ‘Catullus for Children’; ‘The Gas Leak’; ‘From I, Clodia’.

  7. The title of one of the later poems in the ‘I, Clodia’ sequence.

  8. A. Jackson, The Pastoral Kitchen, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002; A. Jackson, Thicket, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2011.

  9. A. Jackson, ‘Poets know words, know routes, know ghosts’, in her Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002, p. 129.

  10. A. Jackson, ‘Reading Horace and Thinking about Susan Sontag’, in ibid., p. 126.

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Johnson, M. Athens to Aotearoa: Greece and Rome in New Zealand Literature and Society, ed. Diana Burton, Simon Perris and Jeff Tatum. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2017. 362 pp. ISBN 9781776561766. $40. Anna Jackson, Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2018. 148 pp. ISBN 9781869408794. $34.99.. Int class trad 26, 346–350 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-018-0488-4

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