The fascist myth of romanity

Authors

  • Andrea Giardina Istituto Italiano de Ciências Humanas de Florença

Keywords:

Fascism, Ancient Rome, Myth, Religion of politics

Abstract

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

Download data is not yet available.

Published

2008-04-01

Issue

Section

Nation / Nationalism Dossier

How to Cite

Giardina, A. (2008). The fascist myth of romanity . Estudos Avançados, 22(62), 55-76. https://www.revistas.usp.br/eav/article/view/10320