Arnaldo Momigliano e Rodi tra Grecia, Roma e fascismo

This chapter explores Arnaldo Momigliano’s interest in ancient Rhodes during the 1930s, when he published some entries on the history of the island in the Enciclopedia Italiana and an important article in the Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica, edited at the time by his teachers Gaetano De Sanctis and Augusto Rostagni. The chapter also more broadly considers his collaboration with the Enciclopedia Italiana, directed by the philosopher Giovanni Gentile, and his relationship with fascism and the fascist regime. through a detailed analysis of Momigliano’s published works on ancient Rhodes, it is argued that there was no intellectual surrender to fascist ideology on his part.