“This is an important book. . . . The account Dozier offers should outrage us and this in turn ‘should inspire us to create a better world than the one the influence of the ancient world helped build.’”—Nic Liney, Literary Review

“A cogent case to reject wishful-thinking rightist presentism when studying the classics.”—Kirkus Reviews

“The White Pedestal is not a book about fringe extremists in Spartan helmets. It’s about ideas—ones that circulate comfortably in mainstream culture, across the political spectrum, often without being recognized as ideological at all. . . . Our culture really does think about Rome all the time. Dozier’s book asks a harder question: why—and to what ends.”—Brian K. Mahoney, Hudson Valley Newsroom

“Curtis Dozier masterfully shows not just how the ancient world plays a central role in the fascist imagination, but how it distorts our history to feed a particularly modern disease. The best volume written on the modern far-right’s toxic obsession with our past.”—Shane Burley, author of Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse

“The White Pedestal is important reading—urgent even—for current idealizers of the classical world and for the next generation of young people being encouraged to study Greek, Latin, and the classics across the educational curriculum. Rather than taking a stand of cancellation, Dozier helps us all to move forward with clearer eyes.”—Patrice D. Rankine, author of Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature

“Notoriously drawing on the Greek and Roman past for inspiration, as Dozier powerfully demonstrates, today’s white nationalists turn out to have many unsettling accomplices, including American mainstream culture and classical scholars themselves.”—Denise Eileen McCoskey, author of Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy

“The White Pedestal is a deeply—even if sadly—needed exploration of how racists use the Greek and Roman past to enhance their world view. As we contemplate a period of increased cultural narrowing and a resurgence of hate, Dozier’s work is both a guide and a warning.”—Joel P. Christensen, author of Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things

“Curtis Dozier unflinchingly examines what most refuse to acknowledge—that ‘classical’ texts depend upon the logics of supremacy.”—Hannah Čulík-Baird, University of California, Los Angeles