Professor Hannah Čulík-Baird has a new published article “The Image of the Slave in Cicero’s Catilinarians.” Rhetorica 41.4, pp385-411.
Abstract:
“Are we not condemned to live in our exposure to one another, sometimes in the same space? Owing to this structural proximity, there is no longer any ‘outside’ that might be opposed to an ‘inside,’ no ‘elsewhere’ that might be opposed to a ‘here,’ no ‘closeness’ that might be opposed to a ‘remoteness.'” Taking inspiration from Achille Mbembe’s (2019), 40, “necropolitical” analysis of slavery in colonial contexts as a “structural proximity,” this article explores Cicero’s use of the image of a slave (idealized as “ideal” as well as vilified as violent) in the Catilinarians.
You can read it here: https://doi.org/10.1353/rht.2023.a915453
Congratulations Hannah!