Black Cicero: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Romans in the 19th and 20th Centuries explores how W. E. B. Du Bois engaged with the ancient Roman orator Cicero. It places Du Bois's writings within global discourses on Greek and Roman antiquity and brings his antiracism to bear on the study of Greek and Roman materials.

Mathias Hanses is Melvin and Rosalind Jacobs University Endowed Fellow in the Humanities and associate professor of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies, African studies, and African American studies at Penn State . He holds a Ph.D. in classics from Columbia University and an M.A. in English philology (American studies) from the University of Münster. He is author of The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence (Michigan, 2020), and works broadly on the history of race, status, and difference in the ancient Mediterranean; Latin literature; the Romanmtheatre; and Black classicism.

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