Abusing Antiquity?

Classics and the Contemporary Far Right

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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The first ever collection of essays to explore the contemporary far right’s fascination with the classical past, Abusing Antiquity? sheds new light on the ways in which ancient Greece and Rome are being used to legitimize political agendas in the present. Through analyses from contemporary Europe and the United States, the volume examines how historical figures, images, events and texts connected with the classical world have been mobilized by the far right to promote extremist views related to race, gender and immigration.From the rise of mid-20th-century fascism to the modern day, the individual chapters examine evidence ranging from memes and online media to literature, music and visual and material culture. The volume addresses questions of best practice, methodology and ethics, while providing historical context for the far right’s use of classics, and interrogating how the structures within classical studies itself can provide support for far-right ideologies. Rather than situating classical antiquity as simplistically ‘abused’ by modern extremist movements, this volume traces Classics’ implication and its appropriations in the recent rise of the far-right, thus contributing to more effective methods of countering extremism.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-11-12
Mått156 x 234 x 15 mm
Vikt409 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350563728

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Helen Roche is Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Durham, UK. Her key publications include The Third Reich’s Elite Schools (2021), Sparta’s German Children (2013) and she is co-editor of Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany (2018).Denise Eileen McCoskey is Professor of Classics and affiliate in Black World Studies at Miami University, USA. She is the author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2012) and editor of A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity (Bloomsbury, 2022).

List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPART I: Rationales, Methods, and Disciplinary ComplicitiesIntroduction: ‘Abusing Antiquity?’Denise Eileen McCoskey and Helen RocheResearching Classics and the Online Far Right: Conceptual, Ethical and Methodological Reflections Helen Roche‘The Product of Twisted Minds’? Institutional and Scholarly Reactions to White Nationalist Classicism in the United States, 2016–2021Curtis DozierPART II: Considering Context: Historical GenealogiesKu-Klux Klassix: White Supremacy and the Classical Tradition during ReconstructionSean Tandy and Benjamin HowlandPolitical Appropriations of Antiquity: Alain de Benoist, the ‘Nouvelle Droite’, and Antisemitic Neo-paganismMarian NebelinThe Gens Cornelia and Caesarism: Icons of AutocracySamuel AgbamuPART III: Case Studies in Contemporary Politics ‘Spartans’ in Parliament: Ancient Sparta and the Greek Neo-Nazi ImaginaryKonstantinos Poulis and Helen RocheIgniting Classical Antiquity: Prometheus and the Techno-Mythologies of the Italian Far RightEleftheria Ioannidou and Lorenzo Di CredicoFrom Eugenics to Genetics: The Role of Ancient DNA in Race Appropriations of Classical AntiquityDenise Eileen McCoskeyPART IV: The Far Right and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Contemporary CultureNational Socialist Black Metal and the Usurpation of Greece and RomeJeremy SwistWhat’s Sparta Got to Do with It? Masculinity and Ancient Sparta in White Supremacist Spaces OnlineRicarda Meisl and Stephanie Savage‘Who Are the Barbarians Now?’ Tacitus’ Germania in the Gender Discourse of the Far RightTeresa MocharitschAnti-Global, Global and Post-Global Classics: Reception of Homer and Classical Scholarship by the Alt-Right Blaz ZabelAfterwordEmily GreenwoodSuggested Further Reading