Brill’s Companion To The Classics, Fascist Italy And Nazi Germany

Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception Series Editor Kyriakos N. Demetriou volume 12 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/bccr Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany Edited by Helen Roche Kyriakos Demetriou leiden | boston Cover illustration: 2000 years of German Culture, pageant to mark the opening of the Haus der deutschen Kunst (House of German Art), Munich, 18 July 1937. Bayerisches Staatsarchiv. Courtesy of the Landeshauptstadt München – Direktorium. The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov lc record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2017035071 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. issn 2213-1426 isbn 978-90-04-24604-1 (hardback) isbn 978-90-04-29906-1 (e-book) Copyright 2018 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense and Hotei Publishing. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill nv provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, ma 01923, usa. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Contents List of Illustrations vii Notes on Contributors x Introduction 1 “Distant Models”? Italian Fascism, National Socialism and the Lure of the Classics 3 Helen Roche part 1 People 2 The Aryans: Ideology and Historiographical Narrative Types in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 31 Felix Wiedemann 3 Desired Bodies: Leni Riefenstahl’s Olympia, Aryan Masculinity and the Classical Body 60 Daniel Wildmann 4 Ancient Historians and Fascism: How to React Intellectually to Totalitarianism (or Not) 82 Dino Piovan 5 Philology in Exile: Adorno, Auerbach, and Klemperer 106 James I. Porter part 2 Ideas 6 Fascist Modernity, Religion, and the Myth of Rome 133 Jan Nelis vi contents 7 Bathing in the Spirit of Eternal Rome: The Mostra Augustea della Romanità 157 Joshua Arthurs 8 “May a Ray from Hellas Shine upon Us”: Plato in the George-Circle 178 Stefan Rebenich 9 An Antique Echo: Plato and the Nazis 205 Alan Kim 10 Classics and Education in the Third Reich: Die Alten Sprachen and the Nazification of Latin- and Greek-Teaching in Secondary Schools 238 Helen Roche 11 Classical Antiquity, Cinema and Propaganda 264 Arthur J. Pomeroy part 3 Places 12 Classical Archaeology in Nazi Germany 289 Stefan Altekamp 13 Building the Image of Power: Images of Romanità in the Civic Architecture of Fascist Italy 325 Flavia Marcello 14 Forma urbis Mussolinii: Vision and Rhetoric in the Designs for Fascist Rome 370 Flavia Marcello 15 National Socialism, Classicism, and Architecture 404 Iai