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Texts of Tyranny
A Selection of Latin Writings from Fascist Italy and National Socialist Germany
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This collection offers a range of Latin texts in both prose and poetry written under Italian Fascism and German National Socialism. These texts actively engage with the political realities of their time. Many served as instruments of propaganda and indoctrination that spread and reinforced harmful ideological positions. Others can be considered documents of resistance or inner emigration, sometimes composed in the face of grave personal danger. This book presents the Latin texts alongside English translations, with notes and introductions that provide historical context and illuminate the relationships between the authors. It demonstrates how the language of ancient Rome was politicised under these two totalitarian regimes.
Han Lamers, PhD (2013), is the Director of the Norwegian Institute in Rome and Full Professor of Classics at the University of Oslo. His research centers on the cultural history of ancient Greek and Latin after antiquity, particularly in early modern and modern Europe.
Bettina Reitz-Joosse, PhD (2013), is Aletta Jacobs Professor Latin Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. Her research interests include the relation between literature and material culture in the ancient Roman world and on the politics of Latin in the 20th and 21st century.
Katharina-Maria Schön, PhD (2022), is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg. Her research interests comprise Early Modern literary utopias, political philosophy, irony and paradoxical humour, and the Neo-Latin literature of the twentieth century.
Contributors are: Nicolò Bettegazzi, Hylke de Boer, Lola Bos, Paola DâAndrea, Han Lamers, Tor Ivar Ãstmoe, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Katharina-Maria Schön
Bettina Reitz-Joosse, PhD (2013), is Aletta Jacobs Professor Latin Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. Her research interests include the relation between literature and material culture in the ancient Roman world and on the politics of Latin in the 20th and 21st century.
Katharina-Maria Schön, PhD (2022), is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Hamburg. Her research interests comprise Early Modern literary utopias, political philosophy, irony and paradoxical humour, and the Neo-Latin literature of the twentieth century.
Contributors are: Nicolò Bettegazzi, Hylke de Boer, Lola Bos, Paola DâAndrea, Han Lamers, Tor Ivar Ãstmoe, Bettina Reitz-Joosse, Katharina-Maria Schön
This book will be of interest to historians, classical philologists, and literary scholars, as well as teachers and students seeking to gain a better understanding of the political uses of Latin in the twentieth century.