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

• Superior document: Brill's companions to classical reception, v. 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Roche, Helen (Historian); Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 471 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
• Other title: Front Matter --; “Distant Models”? Italian Fascism, National Socialism, and the Lure of the Classics /; The Aryans: Ideology and Historiographical Narrative Types in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries /; Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, Aryan Masculinity and the Classical Body /; Ancient Historians and Fascism: How to React Intellectually to Totalitarianism (or Not) /; Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer /; Fascist Modernity, Religion, and the Myth of Rome /; Bathing in the Spirit of Eternal Rome: The Mostra Augustea della Romanità /; “May a Ray from Hellas Shine upon Us”: Plato in the George-Circle /; An Antique Echo: Plato and the Nazis /; Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-Teaching in Secondary Schools /; Classical Antiquity, Cinema and Propaganda /; Classical Archaeology in Nazi Germany /; Building the Image of Power: Images of Romanità in the Civic Architecture of Fascist Italy /; Forma urbis Mussolinii: Vision and Rhetoric in the Designs for Fascist Rome /; National Socialism, Classicism, and Architecture /; Neoclassical Form and the Construction of Power in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany /; Indexes.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004299068
• ISSN: 2213-1426
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou.

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.