Looking for something to read before the SCS? How about my new article on a mime writer parodying the elite of the Roman republic? "Publilius Syrus and the Maw of Luxury" is now out in Phoenix!
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selfie of Mathias Hanses (left) and Hannah Čulík-Baird (right) in front of the UCLA Powell Library
photograph of Hannah Čulík-Baird at the podium speaking (left), and Mathias Hanses seated at the table (right); bg: slide with map of the Mediterranean - labels mark regions referenced by the ancient orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero
We’ve so been looking forward to making this official. Mathias (@mhanses.bsky.social) and I have just signed a contract for our book, Cicero and the Rhetorics of Race, with Yale University Press (@yalepress.bsky.social)!
Latest review on Rhea!
@technites.bsky.social reviews @mhanses.bsky.social, "The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence" (Michigan 2020).
Don't miss the author-reviewer discussion after the review!
TAPA 154.1 is out! Mathias and I have a co-authored article on Cicero's Pro Scauro - the first piece of our book project on Cicero's rhetorics of race.
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Zoom registration if you're interested: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Poster for event on Thursday March 14: discussion of Mathias Hanses' new book with Jackie Murray and Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Can't wait to discuss Mathias Hanses' new book on Thursday with Jackie Murray and Dan-el Padilla Peralta:
"Black Cicero: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Ancient Romans, and the Future of Classical Scholarship" 🔥
summary: Following recent developments in the scholarship on premodern racial formation, the present article examines Cicero’s racializing representations of Sardinian provincials in the Pro Scauro (54 b.c.e.). In this speech, Cicero defends Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, former governor of Sardinia, against charges of provincial mismanagement. In order to secure Scaurus’s acquittal, Cicero portrays the Sardi as a distinct and “deficient” genus, characterized by innate and homogenous somatic, cognitive, and “genetic” qualities. At the same time, Cicero also disparages the Sardinians as a “mixture” of the Africans and the Carthaginians who occupied Sardinia prior to Roman conquest. The result is a juxtaposition between racialized Sardinians and “pure” Romans that is designed to convince the jurors to side with Scaurus, whose participation in the provincials’ dehumanization, murder, and exploitation Cicero presents as morally unproblematic.
I've been so looking forward to sharing news of this forthcoming article, co-authored with Mathias Hanses: "Africa ipsa parens: Racializing Representations of Sardinians in Cicero's Pro Scauro (54 BCE)," for Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Patrice Rankine's special edited volume of TAPA.
Arrived in Syracuse (the Sicilian one) for “Sicily in the Flavian World”! Can’t wait to see old friends and new— through my new glasses! Bonnie chewed up the old pair…
Even I have arrived on social media! Good luck to all of us
