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Introduction; 1. CASE STUDIES; Trojan Women in Yorubaland: FemiOsofisan's Women of Owu; Antigone's Boat: The Colonial and the Post-colonialin Tegonni: An African Antigone, by Femi Osofisan; Antigone and her AfricanSisters: West African Versions of a Greek Original; Cross-Cultural BondsBetween Ancient Greece and Africa: Implications for Contemporary StagingPractices; The Curse of the Canon: Ola Rotimi's The Gods Are Not to Blame;Post-Apartheid Electra: In the City of Paradise; Sculpture at Heroes' Acre,Harare, Zimbabwe: Classical Influences?; 2. ENCOUNTER AND NEW TRADITIONS;Perspectives on Post-Colonialism in South Africa: The Voortrekker Monument'sClassical Heritage; Imperial Reflections: The Post-Colonial Verse-Novel asPost-Epic; A Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's Post-Colonial Philology;Arriving Backwards: The Return of The Odyssey in the English-SpeakingCaribbean; 'If you are a woman': Theatrical Wominizing in Sophocles' Antigoneand Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island; Finding a Post-colonial Voice forAntigone: Seamus Heaney's Burial at Thebes; 3. CHALLENGING THEORY: FRAMINGFURTHER QUESTIONS; 'The same kind of smile': About the 'Use and Abuse' ofTheory in Constructing the Classical Tradition; From the Peloponnesian War tothe Iraq War: A Post-Liberal Reading of Greek Tragedy; Western Classics,Indian Classics: Postcolonial Contestations; Shades of Multilingualism andMultivocalism in Modern Performances of Greek Tragedy in Post-ColonialContexts; The Empire Never Ended; Another Architecture