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Mathias Hanses

@mhanses.bsky.social
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he/him, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, African Studies, and African American Studies at Penn State, "Papa" to M + B

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Mathias Hanses @mhanses.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Black Cicero is now available online! Get your print copy on October 1st :) academic.oup.com/book/63298
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Black Cicero: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Abstract. Mathias Hanses’s new book examines the Black American scholar and activist W. E. B. Du Bois’s lifelong engagement with the Roman orator Marcus Tu
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Mathias Hanses @mhanses.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... www.academia.edu/.../Publiliu....
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Mathias Hanses @mhanses.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
New article on depictions of ancient Numidians! www.academia.edu/145552991/Ca...
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Caesar-Lucan-Addison: Three Moments in the History of Racializing Ancient Numidians
This paper examines the complex entanglement of ancient sources and modern concerns in the racist portrayal of Numidians in the 1778 staging of Joseph Addison's Cato at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania....
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 03/11/2025
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)!
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
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Rhea Classical Reviews @rheaclassical.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
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!
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The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence
Mathias Hanses, The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. ISBN 9780472132256. Mali Skotheim, Ashoka University, mali.skotheim@ashoka.edu...
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 26/04/2024
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. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Project MUSE - <i>Africa ipsa parens</i>: Racializing Representations of Sardinians in Cicero's <i>Pro Scauro</i> (54 B.C.E.)
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Hannah Čulík-Baird @opietasanimi.com · 12/03/2024
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" 🔥
Poster for event on Thursday March 14: discussion of Mathias Hanses' new book with Jackie Murray and Dan-el Padilla Peralta
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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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Mathias Hanses @mhanses.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
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…
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