This is their #RomanEmpire: Toxic Masculinity, Far-Right Propaganda and Social Media Trends Under the Lens of Classical Reception Studies.
During the last few years, classicists and ancient historians have started to analyse critically far-right's digital receptions of the classical past. The appropriations of ancient Greece and Roman history to promote patriarchal and white supremacist ideology are not new at all, but the digital sphe...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 33; no. 2; pp. 214 - 235 |
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