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On 12 April 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Between Innocence and Implication? Approaching Testimonies from Former Nazi Elite-School Pupils' at an international conference on Culture and its Uses as Testimony, University of Birmingham, organised by Sara Jones and Roger Woods.Read more...
Helen's review of Erika Fischer-Lichte's Tragedy's Endurance: Performances of Greek Tragedies and Cultural Identity in Germany since 1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017) has recently appeared in The Classical Review. Read more...
On 26 March 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'The Nazification of Classics-Teaching during the Third Reich' at the Classics Departmental Seminar, Kings College London.Read more...
On 13 March 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'Classicising Chronopolitics: Appropriating Antiquity in Mussolini's "Third Rome" and Hitler's “Third Reich”' at the University of Oslo.Read more...
On 1 March 2018, Helen presented a lecture entitled 'Fascism and the Classics' to pupils at Cranleigh School, Surrey.Read more...
On 11 February 2018, Italian daily paper Il Manifesto featured Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in an article entitled 'L'antichità smontata e ricomposta: Nazismo/Fascismo - un "Companion" da Brill'.Read more...
On 8 February 2018, Helen presented a lecture entitled 'Appropriations of Antiquity in Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany' as part of the Churchill Archives Centre History Lecture Series.Read more...
On 7 February 2018, Helen presented a paper entitled 'New Perspectives on Education during the Third Reich' at the Institute of Historical Research's Modern German History Seminar.Read more...
Helen's review of Wilhelm Müller und der Philhellenismus, edited by Marco Hillemann and Tobias Roth (Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2015), has recently appeared in German Quarterly.Read more...
New Book: Brill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi GermanyBrill's Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, edited by Helen Roche and Kyriakos Demetriou, has just been published by Brill.
The volume provides the first ever guide to the manifold uses and reinterpretations of the classical tradition in Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany. The essays contained within explore how political propaganda manipulated and reinvented the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome in order to create consensus and historical legitimation for the Fascist and National Socialist dictatorships.Read more...