Research Travel Award Winner (Undergraduate): Summer 2018 Thanks to very generous funding I was able to work on a second century Roman bath site in Cifali, located in the province of Ragusa, Sicily. The expedition was lead by Dr. Antonino Facella, professor of archaeology at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and Dr. Alexander Evers, professor of ancient history at Loyola University Chicago's John Felice Rome Center (JFRC). I was enrolled in the JFRC's Fusion program, which serves as an introduction to the field of… read more about Katherine Owensby: Second Century Roman Bath Site in Cifali, Ragusa, Sicily, Italy »
We are delighted to report that just-graduated Classical Studies student Gabi Stewart has been awarded the Chester P. Middlesworth Award — kudos plus one thousand buckeroos! - for her thesis essay, "Rostovtzeff and the Yale Diaspora: How Personalities and Communities Influenced the Development of North American Papyrology." Here's a description of the award: The Middlesworth Awards were established to encourage and recognize excellence of analysis, research and writing by Duke University students in… read more about Gabi Stewart ('18) wins Middlesworth Award »
2nd-year PhD student Sinja Küppers warmly welcomed the incoming graduate students to Duke as part of a Student Panel Discussion during the Graduate School Orientation and invited all first-generation graduate students to join Duke F1RSTS at the Graduate Student Resource Fair. read more about Classical Studies student, Sinja Küppers at the Graduate Orientation »
Kyle Jazwa (Visiting Lecturer) was joined by a small group of archaeologists, including Duke graduate student Antonio LoPiano, to study the architecture at Maa-Palaeokastro, Cyprus. The short-lived settlement was founded at the end of the Bronze Age and is a rare example of large-scale vernacular construction that was found undisturbed by later rebuilding. The team spent many hours in the Cypriot heat and humidity measuring stones, photographing walls, and identifying the construction methods used by the inhabitants to… read more about A Team of Duke Archaeologists Studies Late Bronze Age Architecture in Cyprus »
Assistant Professor Claire Catenaccio with a fig at the Temple of Artemis in Brauron, Greece - the legendary final resting place of Iphigenia - preparing to direct Euripides in an ancient theater! read more about Duke at the Temple of Artemis! »
Professor Atkins discusses the content of his new book, Roman Political Thought, as part of the faculty books video series: https://youtu.be/mEmmaCnrnyU read more about Professor Jed Atkins discusses the content of Roman Political Thought »
Visiting faculty Kyle Jazwa has received a Dean’s commendation for having his course evaluations in the Spring semester fall among the top 5% of all undergraduate instructors in Trinity College. Way to go, Kyle! read more about Kyle Jazwa among top teachers in Trinity College »
Congratulations to Michael Freeman, who has been accepted to the Rubenstein Library’s new “Archival Expeditions” program! He will work with Rubenstein archivists and CLST Professor, Clare Woods this fall and spring to develop and then teach a new archives-based Greek literature component for her History of the Book course. For more info click here. read more about Michael Freeman accepted to the Rubenstein Library’s new “Archival Expeditions” program »
J. Francis (Duke PhD '91, Professor at University of Kentucky) last Friday (July 20) donated to the Nasher a Roman inscription (probably 4th c. and funerary) to Classical Studies, to be held in the Nasher as part of the antiquities collection. The inscription is carefully inscribed and contained interesting and unusual pictorial elements. J. Francis and Tolly Boatwright J. Francis points to an interesting feature of the inscription… read more about New Roman Inscription for the Nasher! »
William Johnson presented an invited response paper for the panel session "Reading and Writing for Rome: literacies of administration" at The 11th Celtic Conference in Classics at St Andrews, Scotland, on the topic, "Is our goal to understand ancient reading and writing, or ancient literacy; and what’s the difference?" read more about William Johnson presents at St Andrews »
Tori Lee's abstract, " 'Tools' of the Trade: Euphemism and Dysphemism in Modern English Translations of Catullus," was accepted for the 2019 SCS annual meeting in San Diego. It will be part of the panel A Century of Translating Poetry (Organized by the Committee on the Translation of Classical Authors). read more about Abstract entitled "'Tools' of the Trade: Euphemism and Dysphemism in Modern English Translations of Catullus" was accepted for the SCS annual meeting in San Diego, CA, January 3-6, 2019 »
David Stifler's abstract, "Cringing at Favorinus: Lexicography and the dismantling of a legacy" has been accepted for the SCS annual meeting in San Diego, CA, January 3-6, 2019. The paper will be part of the "Literature of Empire" panel on Saturday, January 5. read more about Abstract entitled "Cringing at Favorinus: Lexicography and the dismantling of a legacy" was accepted for the SCS annual meeting in San Diego, CA, January 3-6, 2019 »
Duke CLST Visiting Lecturer, Kyle Jazwa, recently completed a two-year study of the Early Bronze Age (“EBA,” ca. 3100-2000 BCE) ceramic roofing tile assemblage from the site of Zygouries near Corinth (Greece). These tiles are among the world’s earliest and were produced at the settlement shortly after their invention in southern Greece. Although now ubiquitous in the Mediterranean, ceramic roofing tiles were relatively rare in the EBA and attest to a significant investment of labor and wealth for this highly visible… read more about Visiting Lecturer, Kyle Jazwa, Studies World’s Earliest Ceramic Roofing Tiles »
Lead by Duke Professor Maurizio Forge, the Vulci 3000, a multidisciplinary archaeological research project that employs advanced digital technologies, is focused on the Etruscan and Roman site of Vulci (10th–3rd c. BCE–4th c. CE). Located in the Province of Viterbo, Italy, Vulci was one of the largest and most important cities in the 1st millennium BCE in the Italian peninsula. This project will analyze and track the transformation and development of Vulci into a city, then city-state, and finally into a Roman city, and… read more about Professor Forte's Fieldwork Team in Vulci »
Melissa Huber's abstract, "An Emperor Makes His Mark: Claudius’ New Letters in the Epigraphic Record" was accepted for the SCS annual meeting in San Diego, CA, January 3-6, 2019. read more about Abstract entitled "An Emperor Makes His Mark: Claudius’ New Letters in the Epigraphic Record" was accepted for the SCS annual meeting in San Diego, CA, January 3-6, 2019 »
Please see below for the Call for Papers for a joint Duke / UNC-CH conference on Digital Cartography. Note that preference will be given to proposals from graduate students and junior faculty. For more info, please visit: AWMC Digital Cartography Call for Papers read more about CFP: Digital Cartography: New Maps, Ancient History Conference Nov. 2-3, 2018 »
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&i… read more about Excavations in Ancient Urban Complexes are Resumed in Vulci »
Research Travel Award Winner (Undergraduate): Spring 2018 From February 23rd to 25th, I attended a spoken Latin immersion weekend run by Salvi: The North American Institute of Living Latin Studies. The focus of the program was to strengthen both confidence and fluency in the Latin language. Also, in attendance were educators, monks, and other students from across the country. Together we participated in classes on vocabulary about daily life, and we drilled grammar constructions. We also read, discussed, and… read more about Katherine Owensby: Latin Immersion by Salvi, Claymont Mansion in Charles Town, W.Va. »
Assistant Professor Claire Catenaccio smiling after a productive first day of her Book Manuscript Workshop, with Charles McNamara (Columbia), Charles Bartlett (Duke History), Jed Atkins (Duke Classical Studies), and Peter Burian (Duke Classical Studies). read more about Book Manuscript Workshop »
Visiting Lecturer, Kyle Jazwa, presented two papers at the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology in Bonn/Cologne, Germany. These papers, "Comparing the Labor Investment and Production of Early and Late Bronze Age Ceramic Roofing Tiles in Mainland Greece" and "Non-Palatial Architectural Ceramics in LBA Mainland Greece: Design, Production, and Use," explore the economics of ceramic roofing tile production in prehistoric Greece. read more about Kyle Jazwa presents two papers at the International Congress of Classical Archaeology in Cologne/Bonn, Germany »
As part of the Spring Breakthrough program, Duke students had a chance to take an informal course without grades or pressure, built around the concept of learning for learning’s sake. In five days over spring break, Joshua Sosin (Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies), Jim Kish (Owner, Kish Fabrication), David LoSchiavo (Owner, Durham Cycles), and a group of four Duke students built a bicycle completely from scratch. Now, we are auctioning the bike! Check it out : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQpsLmWFY04… read more about Auction: Student Built Bike! »
2018 Commencement Program Congratulations to the CLST Class of 2018!Doctor of Philosophy John Aldrup-MacDonald Classical Civilization Majors Travis Long John Sipp Classical Languages Major Gabrielle Stewart Classical Civilizations Minors Anika Ayyar Chloe Banker Sean Klasson Hannah McMullan Jacob Weiss Latin Minors Abirami Balarajan Benjamin Klein Jackson Skeen read more about Congratulations to the CLST Class of 2018 »
Congrats to Sinja Küppers, who has won a slot at this year's Summer Teaching Fellows Program at the National Humanities Center! read more about Küppers at NHC, Summer Teaching Fellow »
Jed Atkins' most recent book, Roman Political Thought, was recently published by Cambridge University Press. This book provides an engaging guide to Roman political thought and its enduring relevance for contemporary liberal democracies. For more information, see Roman Political Thought by Jed W. Atkins. read more about CLST Professor Jed Atkins Publishes New Book! »
Dear Classics community, We are sorry to report the death of Andrea Purvis, a Duke Ph.D. in classics and the widow of our late colleague Diskin Clay. The cause of death was cancer, from which Andrea had been suffering since last December. At the end she was receiving hospice care in her home. Among Andrea’s accomplishments were her translation of Herodotus’Histories for the highly regarded Landmark Herodotus and Four Island Utopias, the anthology of utopian texts she co-authored with Diskin. Andrea asked that there be no… read more about CLST loses a beloved colleague, Andrea Purvis »
William Johnson has one of those very scholarly looking offices where important, weighty tomes make the bookshelf sag. But Johnson, who studies the culture and history of ancient Greece and Rome, is examining a very basic question about many of those aged books: How did the authors get anyone to read them? “We have all this stuff from antiquity,” he says. “How did it come to the public notice? How did people get published? What exactly does “publishing” mean in an ancient context?” Johnson, the current chair of classical… read more about What I'm Working On: Social Media in Ancient Greece »
Click here to see photos from our Honors Thesis Presentation and Reception held last week. Congrats to Gabi Stewart for successfully completing your senior thesis and to all of our graduating seniors. Congratulations class of 2018! read more about Gabi Stewart successfully completes her senior thesis! Congrats! »
Courtney Monahan and Laura Camp present papers at CAMWS 2018 in Albuquerque, NM. Courtney's paper, entitled "Rings on Her Fingers: Women's Public Donations of Jewelry in Roman Iberia," was presented at the session on Greek Epigraphy and Papyrology, and Laura's, "Greeks Doing Algebra," was presented at the session on Ancient Mathematics and Science. read more about CAMWS 2018: Duke Graduate Student Papers »
Can you spell Albuquerque backwards! Our grad colleagues Laura Camp and Courtney Monahan can. That’s where they are now, sharing their work at CAMWS! Laura E. Camp : Greeks Doing Algebra. Courtney Monahan : Rings on Her Fingers: Women's Public Donations of Jewelry in Roman Iberia. And Peter Burian too! Peter Burian : Operatic Danaids ; also presiding over the “Late Euripides” session. Math, jewelry, and opera. How cool is classics! read more about Duke at CAMWS »