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Brill's companion to the classics, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Title
Brill's companion to the classics, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / edited by Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou.
ISBN
9789004299061
9789004246041
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 471 pages)
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Summary
The first ever guide to the manifold uses and reinterpretations of the classical tradition in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany, Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships. The memory of the past is a powerful tool to justify policy and create consensus, and, under the Fascist and Nazi regimes, the legacy of classical antiquity was often evoked to promote thorough transformations of Italian and German culture, society, and even landscape. At the same time, the classical past was constantly recreated to fit the ideology of each regime.
Variant and related titles
Brill's companions in classical studies online III.
Other formats
Online version: Brill's companion to the classics, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 23, 2023
Series
Brill's companions to classical reception, v. 12
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Front Matter
"Distant Models"? Italian Fascism, National Socialism, and the Lure of the Classics / Helen Roche
The Aryans: Ideology and Historiographical Narrative Types in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries / Felix Wiedemann
Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, Aryan Masculinity and the Classical Body / Daniel Wildmann
Ancient Historians and Fascism: How to React Intellectually to Totalitarianism (or Not) / Dino Piovan
Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer / James I. Porter
Fascist Modernity, Religion, and the Myth of Rome / Jan Nelis
Bathing in the Spirit of Eternal Rome: The Mostra Augustea della Romanità / Joshua Arthurs
"May a Ray from Hellas Shine upon Us": Plato in the George-Circle / Stefan Rebenich
An Antique Echo: Plato and the Nazis / Alan Kim
Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-Teaching in Secondary Schools / Helen Roche
Classical Antiquity, Cinema and Propaganda / Arthur J. Pomeroy
Classical Archaeology in Nazi Germany / Stefan Altekamp
Building the Image of Power: Images of Romanità in the Civic Architecture of Fascist Italy / Flavia Marcello
Forma urbis Mussolinii: Vision and Rhetoric in the Designs for Fascist Rome / Flavia Marcello
National Socialism, Classicism, and Architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte
Neoclassical Form and the Construction of Power in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / James J. Fortuna
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