Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Roche, Helen (Historian)
• Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N.

Description

xiii, 471 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 25 cm

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.

Series Statement

Brill's companions to classical reception ; volume 12

Uniform Title

Brill's companions to classical reception ; v. 12.

Subjects

• Germany
• Italy
• Civilization, Classical
• Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Civilization, Modern > 20th century > Greek influences
• 1900-1999
• Italy > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Civilization > Greek influences
• Intellectual life
• Civilization, Modern > 20th century > Roman influences
• Italy > Civilization > Roman influences
• Germany > Civilization > Greek influences
• Civilization, Modern > Roman influences
• Civilization, Modern > Greek influences
• Civilization > Roman influences
• National socialism > Germany
• Fascism and culture > Italy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction. "Distant models"? Italian fascism, National socialism and the lure of the classics / Helen Roche -- Part I: People. 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 -- Part II: Ideas. 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 -- Part III: Places. 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.

Call Number

JFE 18-7390

ISBN

• 9789004246041
• 9004246045

LCCN

2017035071

OCLC

991730505

Title

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

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Brill's companions to classical reception ; volume 12

Brill's companions to classical reception ; v. 12.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Roche, Helen (Historian), editor.

Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Brill's companion to the classics, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004299061 (DLC) 2017053612

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7390