The fascist myth of romanity
Keywords:
Fascism, Ancient Rome, Myth, Religion of politicsAbstract
This essay aims to analyze how the myth of Rome was used by Mussolini to create a fascist specificity that coincided with a specificity of the Italian nation. Ritual practices, gestures, values and symbols were retaken, sometimes arbitrarily, in order to build a myth that generated new ambiguities and that, different from Nazism, constituted a hindrance to the survival of "romanity" after Mussolini.Downloads
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2008-04-01
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Nation / Nationalism Dossier
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Giardina, A. (2008). The fascist myth of romanity . Estudos Avançados, 22(62), 55-76. https://periodicos.usp.br/eav/article/view/10320