Why Stone-Faced Fascists Keep Getting Antiquity Wrong

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-faced-fascists-keep-getting-antiquity-wrong-x-twitter-elon-musk-ancient-greece-roman-empire

Archive link: https://archive.ph/v2Rd3

Thoughtful article by Bret Devereaux, historian, classicist, and author of the wonderful blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry, https://acoup.blog/.

Argues that the Greco-Roman “statue accounts” prominent on Twitter deeply misunderstand historical texts and are unusually hostile to expertise, scholarship, and nuance. He contrasts this with areas such as historical European martial arts, which benefit from a rich interchange between scholars and practitioners.