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Mathias Hanses
@mhanses.bsky.social
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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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)!
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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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!
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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May 23, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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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...
April 26, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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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" 🔥
March 12, 2024 at 8:12 PM
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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.
February 15, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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…
September 29, 2023 at 5:07 PM