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This book presents a new way of looking at Wole Soyinka's engagement with the classical past. The Nigerian author and activist remains the only Black African author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1986), and his dramas, poems, memoirs and essays have become seminal examples of postcolonial literature. The frequent references to Greece and Rome that appear across Soyinka's writings, most explicitly in his 1973 play The Bacchae of Euripid...

Explores how, after Nietzsche, Dionysus and the ancient Greeks would never be the same again.

This exciting book explores the fate of ancient Greek gods, philosophy and tragedy amongst the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century. It focuses on Friedrich Nietzsche's influence on a diverse array of novelists, scholars, poets, philosophers and playwrights who used antiquity to rethink their post-industrial and postcolonial modernity.