{"product_id":"greeks-romans-germans-9780520292970","title":"Greeks Romans Germans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreece and Rome fell because they were incapable of protecting the purity of their blood against mixing and infiltration. This book argues that to fully understand the Nazi regime, we must examine its appropriation of the heroes and lessons of the ancient world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Official Nazi racial doctrine inverted traditional analyses by interpreting antiquity as a product of Nordicism. Although Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, and Speer understood the limited archaeological evidence of early German society differently, biological determinism (the struggle between races) defined the baseline of historical change. In this light, Rome declined as it shed its Nordic blood in battle against Carthage. Alexander the Great's empire declined as it absorbed foreign elements, including Persians. Beyond Max Weinreich's \u003ci\u003eHitler's Professors\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), Chapoutot (Sorbonne) identifies largely \u003ci\u003eGerman\u003c\/i\u003e classicists and philologists, including Hans F. K. Günther and Joseph Vogt, who coupled social Darwinistic ideas and biological racism into their interwar publications on antiquity. Consistent with Michael Wildt's \u003ci\u003eHitler's Volksgemeinschaft\u003c\/i\u003e (CH, Feb'13, 50-3486), the pre-war Nazi curriculum reforms, Berlin's \u003ci\u003eOlympiastadion, \u003c\/i\u003ethe German pavilion for the Paris International Exposition in 1937, the \u003ci\u003eReichsautobahn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e and Nuremberg's \u003ci\u003eReichsparteitagsgelände\u003c\/i\u003e united Germans with an illustrious history and physical reminders of its continuity under Nazi leadership, generally, and Adolf Hitler, specifically. Although racial scientists and academics had established the foundations of biological racism decades earlier, Nazi party officials and pedagogues (for example, Dietrich Klagges) endorsed Nordicism in new textbooks and a revised secondary curriculum. In short, the Nazis usurped Europe's classical past. Summing Up: Highly recommended.\" \u003ci\u003e-- D. A. Meier, Dickinson State University\u003c\/i\u003e * CHOICE connect *\u003cbr\u003e\"Chapoutot brings together the cultural, ideological and historical threads between the Third Reich and the ancient past, as they were woven by Nazi thinkers . . . this is an ambitious, important book for any scholar working on Nazi ideology, precisely because of its synthetic power.\" * Journal of Contemporary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION   PART ONE. ANNEXING ANTIQUITY  1. ORIGIN MYTHS: EX SEPTENTRIONE LUX  2. A NORDIC MEDITERRANEAN: GREECE, ROME, AND THE NORTH, BETWEEN GERMAN COUSINS  3. MENS SANA: ANTIQUITY, THE HUMANITIES, AND GERMAN YOUTH   PART TWO. IMITATING ANTIQUITY  4. FROM STONE TO FLESH: THE BODY OF THE NEW ARYAN MAN BETWEEN AESTHETICS AND EUGENICS  5. THE RACIAL STATE AND TOTALITARIAN SOCIETY: PLATO AS PHILOSOPHER-KING, OR THE THIRD REICH AS SECOND SPARTA  6. FROM EMPIRE TO REICH: THE LESSONS OF ROMAN RULE AND CLASSICAL COLONIALISM   PART THREE. RELIVING ANTIQUITY  7. HISTORY AS RACIAL STRUGGLE: THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS BETWEEN EAST AND WEST IN ANTIQUITY  8. VOLKSTOD OR RASSENSELBSTMORD: HOW CIVILIZATIONS DIE  9. THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE END: AESTHETICISM, NIHILISM, AND THE STAGING OF THE FINAL CATASTROPHE  CONCLUSION   NOTES  INDEX","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402889765207,"sku":"9780520292970","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520292970.jpg?v=1730481784","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/greeks-romans-germans-9780520292970","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}