Whether they know it or not, today’s candidates use ancient rhetorical techniques. read more about Classic Communication »
We are delighted to report that our outgoing student Cord Peters has been awarded the Chester P. Middlesworth Award. read more about Cord Peters is awarded the Chester P. Middlesworth Award »
Research Travel Award Winner (Graduate): Summer 2016 Thanks in large part to a grant from Teasley Family Antiquites Fund, I was able to travel to Rome this past July to gather inscriptional evidence for my dissertation and participate in the Summer Program in Epigraphy at the American Academy in Rome, taught by Professor John Bodel (Brown University). The Summer Program in Epigraphy was an intensive, but incredibly rewarding ten days spent learning from top scholars in the field and from the other participants… read more about Melissa Huber: AAR Summer Program in Roman Epigraphy, Rome Italy »
Research Travel Award Winner (Undergraduate): Spring 2016 Elizabeth wrote her senior honors thesis on depictions of Odysseus’ death in literature, beginning with The Odyssey. She worked from the outside in, starting with Dante, retracing his steps, looking at the classical tradition around Odysseus, and then going past Dante to who he inspired. In Oxford, she learned more about Dante’s own experiences with Odysseus, combining the classical and Medieval/Renaissance knowledge. There is an illuminated manuscript at the… read more about Elizabeth Djinis: Conducted senior thesis research in Oxford, England »
Research Travel Award Winner (Graduate): Summer 2016 Thanks to a generous grant from the Teasley Family Antiquities Fund, I was able to spend my summer sharpening necessary skills at the American Academy in Rome’s summer program in Latin Epigraphy under the direction of John Bodel (Brown University), as well as beginning research on my dissertation in both Italy and Spain. For ten days, our small, but eager group of aspiring epigraphists learned how to read, interpret, and publish Latin inscriptions. Not only did we have… read more about Courtney Monahan: AAR Summer Program in Roman Epigraphy, Rome Italy »
Research Travel Award Winner (Undergraduate): Summer 2016 This summer I was in Greece thanks to a generous grant from the Teasley Family Antiquities Fund. I spent two weeks as a participant in the Paideia Institute’s “Living Greek in Greece” program. The Paideia Institute (http://www.paideiainstitute.org/) offers programs in both Ancient Greek and Latin wherein students approach them as “living,” that is, spoken languages. To that end, we read passages from numerous prose authors each morning, sections of Homer’s Odyssey… read more about Zach Heater: Attending the Living in Greece Program, Selianitika Greece »
Research Travel Award Winner (Graduate): Summer 2016 This summer was a very productive one for me. In May, I visited the British Museum in London, which had a fantastic exhibition on Sicily, which had an amazing cross-section of material from prehistory to the Norman conquest. This exhibition served as the perfect preface to a six-week field season at Morgantina in central Sicily (http://morgantina.org). The first three weeks of June, I worked as an excavator for the Contrada Agnese Project (http://themagazzino.org/) as… read more about Timothy Shea: Conduct research in Great Britain and participate in Duke's Morgantina excavation, Sicily Italy »
Research Travel Award Winner (Undergraduate): Summer 2016 This past summer, I was fortunate enough to receive a research grant from the Teasley Family Antiquities Fund to travel to Italy with George Mellgard (Duke undergraduate). In Italy, we conducted research on the way in which the Ancient Romans viewed women in life and in death. Our research centered on the epitaph Allia Potestas, which is unique in nature because of it featured personal details about the deceased, atypical of other contemporary epitaphs… read more about Jacob Weiss: Research on Latin inscriptions in Italy, Rome & Perugia »
Research Travel Award Winner (Undergraduate): Summer 2016 The Teasley Family Antiquities Fund enabled me to conduct hands-on research for my senior thesis as well as finally get to see the eternal city. My thesis focuses on the inscription of Allia Potestas, a freedwoman. The inscription is unique in its length, style, and content and gives the reader a lens into ancient idealization of freedwomen. Consequently, my research in Rome focused on exploring the inscriptions and tombs of various freedmen and freedwomen in Italy… read more about George Mellgard: Contextualize the artifacts in their original setting in Rome and Perugia, Italy »
Research Travel Award Winner (Graduate): Summer 2016 During the summer of 2016, I was able to accomplish all of my goals with the support from the classics department’s Summer Research Travel Grant. The objectives for my summer research were threefold. First, we were to begin excavation in a 15 by 20 meter area near the western forum, which would support or disprove my GPR (ground penetrating radar) interpretations. Next, I aimed to assess the overall site as a viable area on which to concentrate my research surrounding… read more about Katherine McCusker: Duke's Vulci Excavation, Vulci Italy »
Research Travel Award Winner (Undergraduate): Summer 2016 Receiving funding to go to Italy allowed me to pursue a remarkable opportunity. Italy is a land of fantastic ruins and still-undiscovered treasures. Seeing sites at first hand, being able to walk through the ruins of Pompeii or wander the corridors of the Coliseum, I marveled at the expertise and scale of ambition of the Ancients. I was able to reconcile everything that my textbooks taught me but could not fully convey the reality. One of the most memorable things… read more about Benedict Parfit: Duke's Vulci Excavation, Vulci Italy »
Congrats to Robert Dudley for successfully defending his dissertation last week on "Rhetoric, Roman Values, and the Fall of the Republic in Cicero's Reception of Plato". Well done Dr. Dudley! read more about Duke graduate student Robert Dudley successfully defends his dissertation »
CLST Professor José González was recently recognized by the Dean for Academic Affairs for his contribution to teaching excellence at Duke University. Teaching excellence is at the core of Duke’s mission, and each semester, the Trinity College Office of Assessment administers course evaluations to document this component of the students’ experience. During the Spring 2016 semester, in the categories of Quality of Course and/or Intellectual Stimulation, Professor González’s course evaluations were among the top 5% of all… read more about CLST Professor José González Recognized for Teaching Excellence »
Across this spring and summer, eight Duke students invested a combined 1,200 hours diving into topics surrounding diversity and inclusivity throughout the university’s history, from women empowerment movements to the relationship between Duke and Durham and the place of Asian-American students on campus. Click here to read more read more about CLST Professor Josh Sosin helped teach the Duke History Revisited program this summer. »
In June William Johnson presented a multi-media paper, “Imperial Pantomime and Satoshi Miyagi’s Medea,” for a conference called Music in the Time of Vergil at the Villa Vergiliana in Cuma, Italy. For more info, visit http://www.vergiliansociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Music-in-the… read more about CLST Professor William Johnson presents at the Music in the Time of Vergil »
Classical Civilizations – Majors Nolan Russell – Cum Laude David Stringer Classical Languages – Majors Elizabeth Djinis Edwin Holt Cord Peters Repton Salisbury Alex Serebransky – Cum Laude Ali Wells – Cum Laude Classical Civilization – Minors Rebekah Ausbrook Amber Oliver – Cum Laude Anne Talkington – Magna Cum Laude William Thompson Stephen Yates Greek - Minors Meredith King – Summa Cum Laude Latin - Minors Walter Moczygemba… read more about Congratulations to our graduating Class of 2016! »
National Geographic Society / Waitt Grants Program has awarded support to Professor Maurizio Forte for his project "Vulci 3000 - the City-State: Formation, Development and Transformation", which will include archaeological excavations in Italy and the experimentation of new digital sensors and technology during the archaeological digging (drones, micro-robots, polisensing devices, geophysical applications, virtual reality). NG will also guarantee full media coverage and a dedicated story… read more about National Geographic Sponsors CLST Professor Forte's Vulci 3000 Project »
Prof. A. Jiménez of Duke’s Department of Classical Studies has recently set up an excavation project in Renieblas (Soria, Spain), where at least five Roman camps roughly dated to the 2nd-1st centuries BCE were found in the early 20th century. The camps were involved in the Roman conquest of the province of Hispania and the siege of the native settlement at Numantia, which resulted in Rome’s annexation of much of the Iberian Peninsula in 133 BCE. Many basic and important questions about Renieblas, including the chronology of… read more about CLST Professor Alicia Jiménez wins Loeb Classical Library Foundation award to excavate Roman camps near Numantia, Spain »
Congratulations to the Classical Studies 2016 Research Travel Awards GradsMelissa Huber will attend the AAR Summer Program in Roman Epigraphy and stay in Rome for dissertation research.Katherine McCusker will participate in Duke's Vulci excavation.Courtney Monahan will attend the AAR Summer Program in Roman Epigraphy.Timothy Shea will conduct research in Great Britain and participate in Duke's… read more about Classical Studies 2016 Research Travel Awards »
Congrats to Tripp Young for successfully defending his dissertation yesterday on "Plato's Cretan Colony: Theology and Religion in the Political Philosophy of the Laws". Well done Dr. Young! read more about Duke Graduate Student Tripp Young successfully defends his dissertation »
Duke Classics Professor, Alicia Jiménez has recently been invited to act as a discussant of the session "REPLICATION AND STANDARDIZATION IN THE ROMAN WORLD" organized by Professor Greg Woolf at the Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC/TRAC). The conferences is taking place at the Sapienza – Università di Roma, between March 16 and 20, 2016. For more info, click here. read more about Classics Professor, Alicia Jiménez invited to Roman Archaeology Conference »