Brill's companion to the classics, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

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Label

Brill's companion to the classics, fascist Italy and Nazi Germany

Statement of responsibility

edited by Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou

Contributor

• Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N.
• Roche, Helen, (Historian)

Editor

• Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N.
• Roche, Helen, (Historian)

Subject

• Civilization, Classical
• Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Greek influences
• Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Roman influences
• Fascism and culture -- Italy
• Germany -- Civilization | Greek influences
• Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• Italy -- Civilization | Roman influences
• Italy -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
• National socialism -- Germany

Language

eng

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. 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.--

Member of

• Brill's companions to classical reception, 12

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Provided by Publisher

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QGK

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

• Brill's companions to classical reception
• Brill E-Books

Series volume

volume 12