Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (485 pages)
- Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Series ; v.12 .
- Brill's Companions to Classical Reception Series .
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 Romanit�a (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 Romanit�a 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.
Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany explores how political propaganda constantly 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.