Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-24604-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 474 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 805 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roche, Helen

Demetriou, Kyriakos N

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1 “Distant Models”? Italian Fascism, National Socialism and the Lure of the Classics
Helen Roche

People

2 The Aryans: Ideology and Historiographical Narrative Types in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Felix Wiedemann

3 Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, Aryan Masculinity and the Classical Body
Daniel Wildmann

4 Ancient Historians and Fascism: How to React Intellectually to Totalitarianism (or Not)
Dino Piovan

5 Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer
James I. Porter

Ideas

6 Fascist Modernity, Religion, and the Myth of Rome
Jan Nelis

7 Bathing in the Spirit of Eternal Rome: The Mostra Augustea della Romanità
Joshua Arthurs

8 “May a Ray from Hellas Shine upon Us”: Plato in the George-Circle
Stefan Rebenich

9 An Antique Echo: Plato and the Nazis
Alan Kim

10 Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-Teaching in Secondary Schools
Helen Roche

11 Classical Antiquity, Cinema and Propaganda
Arthur J. Pomeroy

Places

12 Classical Archaeology in Nazi Germany
Stefan Altekamp

13 Building the Image of Power: Images of Romanità in the Civic Architecture of Fascist Italy
Flavia Marcello

14 Forma urbis Mussolinii: Vision and Rhetoric in the Designs for Fascist Rome
Flavia Marcello

15 National Socialism, Classicism, and Architecture
Iain Boyd Whyte

16 Neoclassical Form and the Construction of Power in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
James J. Fortuna

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Roche, Ph.D. (2012), University of Cambridge, is an Affiliated Lecturer in History at Cambridge University. She has published extensively on the classical tradition in Germany, and on Nazism. Her first monograph, Sparta’s German Children (2013), charted Spartan influences on German 19th-20th-century elite education.

Kyriakos Demetriou, Ph.D. (1993), University College London, is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Cyprus. He is editor of Polis, the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought. He is the author and editor of several articles and books on classical reception and the history of political thought.

Contributors are: Stefan Altekamp, Joshua Arthurs, James J. Fortuna, Alan Kim, Flavia Marcello, Jan Nelis, Dino Piovan, Arthur J. Pomeroy, James I. Porter, Stefan Rebenich, Helen Roche, Iain Boyd Whyte, Felix Wiedemann, and Daniel Wildmann.