Mariana Pini

Mariana Pini

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Education: BA, Literature, University of Campinas, 2012
MA, Linguistics | Classics, University of Campinas, 2015

Mariana Pini is a PhD student in Classics at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. She earned her BA (highest-ranking student) in Literary Arts in 2012 (Senior Thesis: Innovating the Orator: the homo nouus ethos in Cicero’s Brutus; Portuguese original: O orador inovado: o ethos do homo nouus no Brutus de Cícero) and her MA in Classics | Linguistics in 2015 (Thesis: Politics and Latinitas: Cicero’s Brutus and the Ends of Roman Eloquence, Portuguese original: Política e Latinitas: o Brutus de Cícero e os fins da eloquência romana) from the University of Campinas, UNICAMP, Brazil with a research stay at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. Her interests currently include Roman literature and historiography; citizenship and political handling of linguistic diversity in the late Roman Republic; privileged/marginalized group dynamics in ancient societies; human-animal relations in antiquity; reception of Classics in South America.