The department would like to take the time to thank everyone for coming to honor Tolly Boatwright with talks by her former students and colleagues on Friday, November 1 and for returning on Saturday, November 2, to hear more about the history of classical study at Duke, watching graduate students perform The Persians, and to hear stories and anecdotes from several emeriti and Tolly.
On Friday, there were two sessions with three paper presentations each:
Eric Adler, Department of Classics, University of Maryland: "Ethical Dualism in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae."
Alex Meyer, Dept of Classical Studies, Western University: “Res Gestae? Intertext and the Elogium from the Porta Stabiae at Pompeii (AE 2018, 498).”
Kathryn Langenfeld, Department of History, Clemson University: “Shorthand Girls and Secret Missives: Women’s Contributions to Late Roman Intelligence Operations."
The second session speakers were:
Kent Rigsby, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University: "Plotina's High Culture."
Charles Muntz, Department of History, University of Arkansas: "Hadrian the Culture Hero: A Roman Emperor Embracing an Old Motif."
Sean Burrus, Curator of Judaic Art, North Caroluna Museum of Art: "What is Jewish about Jewish Art? Art and Identity on Late Antique Sarcophagi from Rome."
On Saturday, many attendees returned to Duke Divinity to help ring in over 100 years of classical study at Duke. Chair Clare Woods gave a presentation on her archival research on the department and its precursors. Several graduate students performed an excerpt of the Greek tragedy "The Persians" by Aeschylus (translation by 2nd year PhD student Sabina Sabat), and a panel of 5 emeriti/a professors shared their stories and memories over the decades.
Classical Studies