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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 15/02/2024

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.

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.

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Andrew Riggsby @antiquethought.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

I had a student write a paper on that speech a few years ago demonstrating some really interesting race/gender/age intersectionality.

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Curtis Dozier @curtisdozier.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Relevant to our quick exchange the other day @naomialderman.bsky.social and @helenlovatt.bsky.social

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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 15/02/2024

Not just because I'm excited to share new work but because I'm delighted to officially announce my collaborative research partnership with Mathias Hanses, with whom I am co-authoring a book on representations and discourses of ancient race across the Ciceronian corpus as a whole.

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R F Kennedy (not Jr.) @kataplexis.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

You are welcome…

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