Roman salute9/4/2023 ![]() Before that time the salute was used in many other contexts, including in America during the recitation of the pledge of allegiance, which is probably what Schoep was going to refer to in defense of the gesture before Mathias interrupted him. The Fascist party in Italy, taking inspiration from its use by the prominent Italian poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio, adopted the gesture as a way of connecting their movement to the Roman past, followed by the Nazis who required their adherents to use the gesture beginning in 1926. ![]() Winkler shows that the gesture is not found in any ancient Roman art or literature, and traces the origins of the gesture back to the pose taken by the brothers Horatii in Jacque-Louis David’s 1784 painting The Oath of the Horatii, which seems to have been the first representation of the gesture in connection to an ancient Roman context, and to early films about ancient Rome, which associated the gesture with Rome in the public imagination. Schoep is far from the first person to call this gesture of allegiance the “Roman salute,” which has been exhaustively studied by Martin Winkler in his 2009 book The Roman Salute: Cinema, History, Ideology. You know what people think that means.”Īt this point Schoep threatens to have Mathias removed from the rally for being “disrespectful.” Schoep’s "correction" of Mathias’ use of "Nazi salute" is part of NSM’s effort to "re-brand" their movement Mathias : “You know that’s not what that means. Schoep: “In the United States, if you look back, into the 1920s, around that time…” Mathias: “That’s a Roman salute? I mean, that’s really what you’re calling it?” Schoep’s reply, after a pause, was “it’s a Roman salute.” In the video Mathias asks Schoep: “Can we talk about the Nazi salutes your friends are giving on the stage? What’s that?”
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