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Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
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.
488 pages, ebook
Published October 16, 2017
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September 3, 2024
A good overview, slightly spoilt by the fact of reading Chapoutot's Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe's Classical Past before. Much of it felt rehashed and basic - but that is rather the point, in a Brill volume that seeks to overview the subject area. I also passed over a number of chapters that dealt solely with Fascist Italy, as this isn't relevant to my work.
Some highlights were Chapter Ten (Helen Roche's "Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-Teaching in Secondary Schools"), Chapter Five (James Porter's "Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer"), and Chapter Three (Daniel Wildmann's "Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, Aryan Masculinity and the Classical Body").
Some highlights were Chapter Ten (Helen Roche's "Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-Teaching in Secondary Schools"), Chapter Five (James Porter's "Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer"), and Chapter Three (Daniel Wildmann's "Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, Aryan Masculinity and the Classical Body").
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