Abusing Antiquity?: Classics and the Contemporary Far Right

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 legitimise present-day political agendas.Bringing together a diverse range of authors and case studies, the volume highlights the ways in which ideas about the classical past have been appropriated to support extremist ideologies, especially in conversations about race, gender, and immigration. The individual chapters within the volume analyse a wide variety of national and political settings, and examine diverse forms of evidence, including memes and online media, literature, music, and modern visual and material culture, cumulatively illuminating the forms and power of such uses of antiquity.The book addresses questions of best practice, methodology and ethics when engaging with extremist material, interrogates the ways in which disciplinary structures within classical studies