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 »
In early April Prof. Boatwright presented "Above the Law? Crimes and Punishments of Imperial Women," at the Biggs Family Residency in Classics Reunion at Washington University in St. Louis (Apr. 11-13, 2018). For further details and a full program, see https://sites.wustl.edu/biggsreunion18/. Prof B photographs the Apis bull statue Hadrian donated to the Serapeion in Alexandria, in the Sunken Cities exhibit at SLAM. read more about Above the Law? Crimes and Punishments of Imperial Women by Tolly Boatwright »
John Aldrup-MacDonald and Sinja Küppers organized the first Duke-UNC First-Gen Graduate Student Symposium with Dr. Karri Holley, professor of Higher Education at the University of Alabama on 4/7. More such events to follow! read more about First Duke-UNC First-Gen Graduate Symposium »
Jed Atkins recently delivered a paper on "Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Cicero's De officiis" for the Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop at the University of Chicago on April 11, 2018. For a program of recent workshop speakers, see: https://voices.uchicago.edu/agarp/ read more about Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism in Cicero's De officiis by Jed Atkins »
Jed Atkins recently delivered a lecture on "Gratitude: An Ancient Virtue for the Modern World," at Wheaton College on April 11, 2018, as part of their Philosophy Speakers Series. The abstract for the lecture can be viewed here: http://intelligentevent.com/?event=gratitude-an-ancient-virtue-for-the-modern-world; the series program can be found at https://www.wheaton.edu/academics/programs/philosophy/speaker-series/2017-18-philosophy-speaker-series/ read more about Gratitude: An Ancient Virtue for the Modern World by Jed Atkins »
Students from Greek 332 and CLST 280 visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City with Professor Claire Catenaccio! read more about Greek Drama in New York »
Congrats to Adrian Linden-High on winning a Graduate Student Enhancement Grant, to attend DHSI this summer (http://www.dhsi.org). His project is called "IIIF - Unleashing the Power of Ultra High-Resolution Images in the Humanities". Unleash! read more about Adrian Linden-High wins GSTEG! »
John Aldrup-MacDonald defends his dissertation, "Athenian Democracy on Paper". You only *thought* there was no papyrology of Athens! read more about John Aldrup-MacDonald defends his diss! »
Jed Atkins delivered a paper with the title “Cicero on Athenian Democracy and Its Critics" on March 14, 2018 at Lille, France, as part of the seminar “Philosophie et Rhétorique dans l’Antiquité. Le De re publica de Cicéron.” Details of the event can be seen here: https://halma.univ-lille3.fr/index.php/event/seminaire-philosophie-et-rhetorique-dans-lantiquite-le-de-re-publica-de-ciceron-3/ read more about Cicero on Athenian Democracy and Its Critics by Jed Atkins »
Zach Heater (Classical Studies, '17) has just had accepted for publication yet another part of his senior thesis. This revised chapter will appear under the title, "On Believing Simonides: Plato and Polemarchus in Republic 1," in Stanford's Aisthesis Undergraduate Classics journal. The journal website can be found here: https://classics.stanford.edu/projects/aisthesis-undergraduate-journal. The publication will appear in the May 2018 issue. read more about Zach Heater ('17) publishes on Plato - yet again! »
Jed Atkins delivered a lecture on "Hope and Empire in the Dream of Scipio" at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on March 9 as part of the Séminaire de philosophie hellénistique et romaine. The program with the full schedule of speakers for the Spring semester can be found here: https://zetesis.hypotheses.org/4360 read more about Hope and Empire in the Dream of Scipio by Jed Atkins »
On March 8, Kyle Jazwa presented a paper in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium at the conference: ASHLAR. Exploring the Materiality of Cut Stone Masonry in the eastern Mediterranean Bronze Age. His paper was entitled, "Accommodations to Building Design and Labor Organization for Cut Stone Masonry in Mycenaean Greece." Further details about the conference can be found at https://ashlar.minoan-aegis.net/ashlar read more about Kyle Jazwa presents on Mycenaean ashlar masonry in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium »
Sneak Peek at the CLST Fall 2018 Courses Here is a sneak peek of our courses for Fall 2018. Bookbagging begins March 26th. Registration for Summer I & II 2018 and Fall 2018 Courses Begins April 4th Registration for Summer I & II 2018 and Fall 2018 will begin on April 4th. To register please login to Duke Hub during your scheduled registration window. read more about Sneak Peak at Fall 2018 Courses »
Duke Professor Carla Antonaccio gave a lecture on Feb. 27 in Mainz at their invitation. The title was "Morgantina in Sicily. Re-Excavating an excavation". It was a public lecture, attended mostly by the museum staff and students in addition to the public. read more about Lecture by Carla Antonaccio at the Romish-Germaniche Zentralmuseum (Mainz) »
Duke Classical Studies for the first time hosted a national Latin Certamen. And what a Certamen it was! There were 30 preliminary contests in three rounds leading up to 9 semifinal contests, and then the 3 finals. The event included 9 novice teams, 6 intermediate, and 12 advanced. So, 27 teams, 132 students in toto, ranging from 8 grade to senior. The contest was won by high schools from DC and northern Virginia, with two Florida teams being the runners up. Organizing committee: Saumya Sao (Organizer and… read more about Duke hosts National Certamen »