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Abusing Antiquity? : Classics and the Contemporary Far Right - Helen Roche

Abusing Antiquity?

Classics and the Contemporary Far Right

By: Helen Roche (Editor), Denise Eileen McCoskey (Editor)

eBook | 12 November 2026

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The first ever collection of essays to explore the contemporary far right's fascination with the classical past, Abusing Antiquity? sheds new light on the ways in which ancient Greece and Rome are being used to legitimize political agendas in the present. Through analyses from contemporary Europe and the US, the volume examines how historical figures, images, events and texts connected with the classical world have been mobilized by the far right to promote extremist views related to race, gender and immigration.

From the rise of mid-20th-century fascism to the modern day, the individual chapters examine evidence ranging from memes and online media to literature, music and visual and material culture. The volume addresses questions of best practice, methodology and ethics when engaging with extremist material, while also providing historical context to the far right's use of classics, and interrogating how the structures within classical studies itself too often provide support for far-right ideologies. Rather than situating classical antiquity as simplistically 'abused' by modern extremist movements, this volume traces Classics' implication and its appropriations in the recent rise of the far-right, thus contributing to more effective methods of countering extremism.

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