The Cambridge companion to classics and race /

"What was 'race' in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead 'White' men? This book explores the different manifestations of 'race' across Graeco-Roman antiquity as well as how the field of Classics became infused with racial...

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Other Authors: Andújar, Rosa (Editor), Giusti, Elena (Editor), Murray, Jackie (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Series:Cambridge companions to the ancient world.
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Table of Contents:
  • Language and race / Katherine McDonald
  • Race in ancient Greek visual and material culture / Naoíse Mac Sweeney
  • Staging race in Greek drama / Rosa Andújar
  • Plato and Aristotle on race, racecraft and politics / David Kaufman
  • Race, gender, and genocide in Apollonius' Argonautica / Jackie Murray
  • Race and slavery in Roman comedy / Mathias Hanses
  • Sensing brown in the Roman empire / Dan-El Padilla Peralta
  • Ethnographic discourses : Rome's racialized Africa / Elena Giusti
  • Whitish supremacy : thinking with skin in Roman Greece / Tim Whitmarsh
  • Race and religion in late antiquity / Yonatan Binyam
  • Navigating classics and negotiating indigeneity from Aristotle to the present / Ashley Lance
  • Historiography of art / Katherine Harloe
  • Anti-semitism and the foundations of classical scholarship / Simon Goldhill
  • Black Athena/Black Athenians / Maghan Keita
  • Race and historical writing in an age of empire / Phiroze Vasunia
  • Modern scientific race and the classical / Rebecca Futo Kennedy
  • Papyrology and race / Roberta Mazza
  • Bint Al-Nil : on the modern racing of ancient Egypt / Katherine Blouin
  • Translation, privilege and racecraft in classics / Shelley Haley
  • Culture and race in classical reception : West African adaptations of Greek tragedy / Olakunbi Olasope
  • Classical reception in/beyond Asia / Kelly Nguyen
  • Graeco-Roman antiquity and white nationalist conceptions of race / Curtis Dozier
  • Inclusion, diaspora, colonialism : movements in global classics / J. Mira Seo
  • Nation, whiteness, classical antiquity : another fateful triangle / Patrice Rankine.