Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany / Edited by Helen Roche, Kyriakos Demetriou.
| Other author | Roche, Helen (Historian) |
| Other author | Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] |
| Description | xiii, 471 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Brill's companions to classical reception, 2213-1426 ; Volume 12 Brill's companions to classical reception ; v. 12. ^A1287656 |
| Contents | Introduction. "Distant models"? Italian fascism, National socialism and the lure of the classics / Helen Roche -- Part I: People. The Aryans: ideology and historiographical narrative types in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Felix Wiedemann -- Desired bodies: Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia, Aryan masculinity and the classical body / Daniel Wildmann -- Ancient historians and fascism: how to react intellectually to totalitarianism (or not) / Dino Piovan -- Philology in exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer / James I. Porter -- Part II: Ideas. Fascist modernity, religion, and the myth of Rome / Jan Nelis -- Bathing in the spirit of eternal Rome: the Mostra Augustea della Romanità / Joshua Arthurs -- "May a ray from Hellas shine upon us": Plato in the George-circle / Stefan Rebenich -- An antique echo: Plato and the Nazis / Alan Kim -- Classics and education in the Third Reich: die alten Sprachen and the nazification of Latin- and Greek-teaching in secondary schools / Helen Roche -- Classical antiquity, cinema and propaganda / Arthur J. Pomeroy -- Part III: Places. Classical archaeology in Nazi Germany / Stefan Altekamp -- Building the image of power: images of Romanità in the civic architecture of fascist Italy / Flavia Marcello -- Forma urbis Mussolinii: vision and rhetoric in the designs for fascist Rome / Flavia Marcello -- National socialism, classicism, and architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Neoclassical form and the construction of power in fascist Italy and Nazi germany / James J. Fortuna. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017035071 |
| ISBN | 9789004246041 (hardback) : alk. paper) |
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