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Author Roche, Helen

Title Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
Published Boston : BRILL, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (485 pages)
Series Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Ser
Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Ser
Contents Intro; ‎Contents; ‎List of Illustrations; ‎Notes on Contributors; ‎Introduction; ‎Chapter 1. "Distant Models"? Italian Fascism, National Socialism, and the Lure of the Classics (Roche); ‎Part 1. People; ‎Chapter 2. The Aryans: Ideology and Historiographical Narrative Types in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (Wiedemann); ‎Chapter 3. Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, Aryan Masculinity and the Classical Body (Wildmann); ‎Chapter 4. Ancient Historians and Fascism: How to React Intellectually to Totalitarianism (or Not) (Piovan)
‎Chapter 5. Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer (Porter)‎Part 2. Ideas; ‎Chapter 6. Fascist Modernity, Religion, and the Myth of Rome (Nelis); ‎Chapter 7. Bathing in the Spirit of Eternal Rome: The Mostra Augustea della Romanità (Arthurs); ‎Chapter 8. "May a Ray from Hellas Shine upon Us": Plato in the George-Circle (Rebenich); ‎Chapter 9. An Antique Echo: Plato and the Nazis (Kim); ‎Chapter 10. Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-Teaching in Secondary Schools (Roche)
‎Chapter 11. Classical Antiquity, Cinema and Propaganda (Pomeroy)‎Part 3. Places; ‎Chapter 12. Classical Archaeology in Nazi Germany (Altekamp); ‎Chapter 13. Building the Image of Power: Images of Romanità in the Civic Architecture of Fascist Italy (Marcello); ‎Chapter 14. Forma urbis Mussolinii: Vision and Rhetoric in the Designs for Fascist Rome (Marcello); ‎Chapter 15. National Socialism, Classicism, and Architecture (Whyte); ‎Chapter 16. Neoclassical Form and the Construction of Power in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (Fortuna); ‎Index of Names; ‎Index of Subjects
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.0The 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
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Subject Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Greek influences
Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Roman influences
Fascism and culture -- Italy
National socialism -- Germany.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Classical
Civilization -- Greek influences
Civilization, Modern -- Greek influences
Civilization, Modern -- Roman influences
Civilization -- Roman influences
Fascism and culture
Intellectual life
National socialism
SUBJECT Italy -- Civilization -- Roman influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068905
Germany -- Civilization -- Greek influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005411
Italy -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068992
Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054610
Subject Germany
Italy
Form Electronic book
Author Demetriou, Kyriakos N
ISBN 9789004299061
9004299068