Sparta and the Nazis
The Ancients
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Classical History, I Think, Is a Part of a Spartan Mirage?
i'm also hopefully going to be, in the future, doing some work where i look at how these kinds of ideas and other ideas appropriated by the far rightan in contemporary world. So i think it's really resting to think about the way in which classics, as a discipline, brings to lighto or perhaps in some way legitimises discourses. And if you're e in texts like plutarch or xenophon uncritically, or not, thinking about the fact that obviously, plutarch is writing so far away from the time that stood, of fifth century b c, or whatever,. You can kind of take bits of it without having to almost distort them too much.
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