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  • 8: - Ethnographic Discourses:

  • from Part I - Race and the Premodern Era
  • Edited by Rosa Andújar, Barnard College, Columbia University, Elena Giusti, University of Cambridge, Jackie Murray, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
    Published online:
    07 May 2026
    Print publication:
    21 May 2026, pp 178-194

  • Summary

    In 1988, Congolese philosopher Valentin-Yves Mudimbe called for a study of the influence of Graeco-Roman literature on the European invention of Africa. Whether or not Graeco-Roman literature presents a coherent picture of Africa as a geography and ethnography of alterity, early modern European writings made use of these descriptions to justify European superiority and colonial expansion into African territories. While the aims and contexts of the ancient texts differed widely from their later instrumentalisations, this chapter asks whether Roman representations of African territories and people already show traces of dehumanisation and cultural hierarchies that can be productively analysed with the tools of race and critical race theories.

  • Classics and Race:

  • Edited by Rosa Andújar, Barnard College, Columbia University, Elena Giusti, University of Cambridge, Jackie Murray, State University of New York, Buffalo
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
    Published online:
    07 May 2026
    Print publication:
    21 May 2026, pp 1-32

  • Summary

    This chapter provides an overview of the entangled history between the discipline of Classics and the biological concept of race. Section I.1 outlines the emergence of problematic claims about the alleged White nature of Graeco-Roman antiquity from the modern era to the present day that have helped substantiate biological conceptions of race. Section I.2 examines scholarly work in critical race theory and early modern studies that offer more nuanced definitions of race beyond the biological. Section I.3 summarises work on the study of race in Classics, and Section I.4 discusses the contents of this Companion.

The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race
  • Edited by Rosa Andújar, Elena Giusti, Jackie Murray
  • Published online:
    07 May 2026
    Print publication:
    21 May 2026
  • Race as a concept has had a fraught role in the history of Classics, woven into its formation as an academic discipline. While the texts and artefacts of the ancient Mediterranean world provide complex understandings of what race might mean and how it might operate, they have also provided fodder for modern racial ideologies. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and groundbreaking overview of 'race' and 'racism' in ancient Mediterranean cultures as well as in the formation of Classics as a discipline. Through twenty-four chapters written by a team of international scholars, it clarifies the terms and concepts that are central to contemporary theories of race and explores the extent to which they can be applied to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world, in and beyond Greece and Rome. It also showcases various concrete examples of how Classics has been shaped by the intertwined histories of race and colonialism.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Tom Geue, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Elena Giusti, University of Warwick
  • Book:
    Unspoken Rome
    Published online:
    03 September 2021
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021, pp 1-16

  • Summary

    An introduction to reading Latin literature through the prism of textual absence. It places the volume’s aims and objectives within the broader panorama of Latin literary studies, introduces the volume’s contributions and sketches some possible future avenues for the topic.

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