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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796657803321

Titolo

Brill's companion to the classics, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / / edited by Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2017

ISBN

90-04-29906-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 471 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Brill's companions to classical reception, , 2213-1426 ; ; v. 12

Altri autori (Persone)

RocheHelen (Historian)

DēmētriouKyriakos N

Disciplina

943.086

Soggetti

Civilization, Modern - 20th century - Greek influences

Civilization, Modern - 20th century - Roman influences

Fascism and culture - Italy

National socialism - Germany

Civilization, Classical

Italy Civilization Roman influences

Germany Civilization Greek influences

Italy Intellectual life 20th century

Germany Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 -- Indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

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.