Blog: Back to antiquity: the Mostra Augustea and Fascism’s ancient Rome

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The appropriation of ancient Greece and Rome by far-right ideologies has been troubling scholars of antiquity for quite some time now. From German National-Socialism to contemporary alt-right movements, many groups have been using Greek and Roman antiquity as an anchor for their political and cultural agenda. But few have turned as systematically to antiquity as the Italian Fascist regime did.