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In this chapter I discuss recent attempts to link the Scandinavian Bronze Age with Minoan Crete. The current political agenda of Europeanism is one important incentive behind these efforts to search for a pan-European identity in the past. Evidence of contacts between northern and southern Europe is suggested mainly through the identification of similarities between Scandinavian images and motifs from the Mycenaean and Minoan world. This approach is not entirely new. In the late 19th century Oscar Montelius had already presented similar ideas on Bronze Age cultural contacts between the two regions. In fact, beside the pan-European discourse, the current neo-diffusionist trend could also be seen in the context of a reaction against a prevailing neo-evolutionary and processualist explanatory framework (which, in turn, could be seen as a reaction against a culture-historical diffusionist framework). The alleged contacts, however, are based on tenuous archaeological evidence: not only are the iconographic similarities often the result of arbitrary interpretations of the images in question, but there are also great chronological discrepancies. Moreover, Scandinavian archaeologists tend to accept obsolete ideas about Minoan culture and transfer these to a Scandinavian Bronze Age context in an uncritical manner.

Pubblicato in Un modello catalografico per l'archeologia industriale, a cura di G. Bovini, R. Covino, M. G. Fioriti, G. Gallo, M. Giorgini, Perugia: Electa Editori Umbri Associati (Catalogo regionale dei beni culturali dell'Umbria), 1987, pp. 13-39.

The myth of the ancient Rome is an effective tool of propaganda, through which the Fascist regime justifies its political programs, especially the construction of the national identity and the colonial aspirations of the Italian Empire. The aim of this article is to demonstrate that the Fascist visual and linguistic rhetoric deforms the original meaning of the most popular symbols and rituals of the Roman world, such as the fasces, remodeled by the archaeologist Giacomo Boni, and the feast of Natalis Urbis. They are employed to ideologically legitimize its authority. ; Il mito di Roma antica costituisce un efficace strumento propagandistico attraverso il quale il regime fascista giustifica i suoi programmi politici, in particolare quelli riguardanti la costruzione dell'identità nazionale e le aspirazioni coloniali dell'Impero italiano. L'obiettivo di questo articolo è dimostrare come la retorica visuale e linguistica fascista deformi il significato originale dei più noti simboli e rituali del mondo romano, come i fasces, ricostruiti dall'archeologo Giacomo Boni, e la festa del Natalis Urbis, per legittimare ideologicamente la propria autorità.