Ancient Greece and Rome are an origin point of sorts for the Alt Right: an imagined golden age of White supremacist patriarchy they can idealize and aspire to recreate.
Donna Zuckerberg
Donna Zuckerberg is the author of Not All Dead White Men: Classics and An aggravated form of sexism that is a primary motivation for the Right, both as recruitment for and justification of its agenda. Learn more in the Digital Age (Harvard University Press, Fall 2018). She received her Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton in 2014. She is Editor-in-Chief of Eidolon, an online publication for longform essays about intersections between classical antiquity and the modern world, and her writing has appeared in the TLS, Jezebel, and The Establishment.
