Greeks, Romans, Germans : how the Nazis usurped Europe's classical past /

"Much has been written about the conditions that made possible Hitler's rise and the Nazi takeover of Germany, but when we tell the story of the National Socialist Party, should we not also speak of Julius Caesar and Pericles? Greeks, Romans, Germans argues that to fully understand the rac...

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Main Author: Chapoutot, Johann (Author)
Other Authors: Nybakken, Richard R. (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Series:Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature.
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505 0 |a Origins myths : ex septentrione lux -- A Nordic Mediterranean : Greece, Rome, and the north, between German cousins -- Mens sana : antiquity, the humanities, and German youth -- From stone to flesh : the body of the new Aryan man between aesthetics and eugenics -- The racial state and totalitarian society : Plato as philosopher-king, or the Third Reich as second Sparta -- From empire to reich : the lessons of Roman rule and Classical colonialism -- History as racial struggle : the clash of civilizations between east and west in antiquity -- Volkstod or Rassenselbstmord : how civilizations die -- The choreography of the end : aesthetism, nihilism, and the choreography of the final catastrophe. 
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