Duke Classics: Faculty

Click here for a printer-ready version, or download as a PDF file.

Curriculum Vitae
Diskin Clay

Department of Classical Studies
Duke University
Box 90103
Durham, NC 27708-0103

919-684-8873, 919-684-5076 (office)
diskin.clay@duke.edu (email)

Education:: Ph.D. in Classics University of Washington, Seattle, 1967; B.A Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1960; M.A. in Classics University of Washington, Seattle, 1963

Professional Experience / Employment History

Villa Corsi-Salviati, Sesto Fiorentino

Duke University

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Johns Hopkins University

l'Université de Lille

Haverford College

Reed College

Excavation and Archaeological Experience

Work on the hero cults, Thasos, 1995

Work on the cult of Archilochos, Paros, 1989

Member of the Oenoanda Survey, British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, 1975

Work on the inscriptions from the Athenian Agora, 1970

Excavator, the Kyrenia Wreck off Kyrenia, Cyprus, 1968

Publications

Books

Archilochos Heros: The Cult of Poets in the Greek States. Harvard University Press, (2004).

Sophocles' Philoctetes (translated by Carl Phillips, with an Introduction and Notes by Diskin Clay). Greek Tragedy in New Translation, Oxford University Press, (2003).

Euripides, The Trojan Women, Translated with Introduction and Notes. Focus Classical Library, (2003). (Newburyport, Massachusetts)

D. Clay and Carl Phillips. Sophocles, Philoctetes. Oxford University Press, (2002).

Platonic Questions: Dialogues with the Silent Philosopher. The Pennsylvania State University Press, (2000). (University Park, Pennsylvania)

D. Clay and Andrea Purvis. Four Island Utopias: Being Plato's Atlantis, Euhemeros of Messene's Panchaia, Iamboulos' Island of the Sun, and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. Focus Publishing, (1999). (Newburyport, Massachusetts)

Introduction, Translation, and Notes, translated by David Konstan, Diskin Clay, Terence E. Glad, Johan C. Tom, and James P. Ware. Philodemus: On Frank Criticism. The Society for Biblical Literature, Scholars Press, (1998). (Atlanta)

Paradosis and Survival: Three Chapters in the History of Epicurean Philosophy. The University of Michigan Press, (1998). (Ann Arbor, Michigan)

John Locke: Questions concerning the Law of Nature. edited by Edited and translated by Robert Horwitz, Jenny Strauss Clay, and Diskin Clay Cornell University Press, (1990). (Ithaca and London)

Lucretius and Epicurus. Cornell University Press, (1983). (Ithaca and London)

D. Clay and Stephen Berg. Sophocles' Oedipus the King. Oxford University Press, (1978). (New York)

Oxyrhynchan Poems. Press 22, (1973). (Portland Oregon)

Monographs

D. Clay. Lucian of Samosata: Four Philosophical Lives (Nigrinus, Demonax, Peregrinus, Alexander Pseudomantis. edited by W. Haase(1992) 3406-3450. (Berlin and New York)

D. Clay. The Philosophical Inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda: New Discoveries 1969-1983. edited by W. Haase(1990) 2446-2560 with 10 Plates and Index. (Berlin and New York)

Papers Published

"Plato Philomythos." The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology. Edited by Roger Woodard. Cambridge (2007) 210-236.

"The philosophical writings of Demetrius of Laconia” “The philosophical inscription of Diogenes of Oenoanda,” and “A Census of Known or Suspected Epicureans: 100 BC -200 AD." Greek and Roman Philosophy 100 BC to 200 AD. Edited by Richard Sorabji and Robert W. Sharples. BICS Supplement 94 – 2 vols London (2007) 207-211 & 283-291.

"“l’Épicurisme: école et tradition,” trans. Claudine Tiercelin." Lire Épicure et les épicuriens. Edited by ed. Alain Gigandet and Jean-Marie Morel. Paris (2007) 11-27.

"Dialogue and Dialectic." New Dictionary of the History of Ideas Waterville, Maine 574-6.

"The Islands of the Odyssey." Mapping the Mediterranean Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies vol. 37 no. 1, (2007) 141-161..

""Meditating on the Meditations," Introduction to Martin Hammom, translator, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius." Penguin Books (2006).

"Reflections of the Marble Past in the early Poetry of George Seferis." Antiphilesis: Studies in Honor of J. Th. A. Papademetriou (2006). Steiner Verlag

"The Comic Poet of Plato’s Symposium." Skepsis (2006) 25:73-81. (in Festschrift for John Anton in Honor of his 85th Birthday)

"The Hangover of Plato’s Symposium in Renaissance Italy:." Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception. Edited by James Lesher, Debra Nails, and Frisbee Sheffield. Helenic Studies 22 Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University Press (2006) 341-359.

"Translation of George Seferis' Delphi, Arion." NS 12:3: 1-16 .

""Plato's Atlantis and the Exploding Planet," review of A.F. Alford: The Atlantis Secret: A Complete Decoding of Plato's Lost Continent." The Classic Review 56-58 2001 .

"Vergil's Farewell to Education (Catalepton V) and Epicurus' Letter to Pythocles." Philodemus, Vergil, and the Augustans. Edited by Patricia Johnston and Marilyn Skinner. University of Texas Press, Austin (2004) 54-76.

"Lucretius' Honeyed Muse: The History and Meaning of an Analogy." Mèlanges offerts à Mayotte Bollack: Le jardin romain. Épicurisme et poèsie à Rome. Edited by Annick Monet and Philippe Rouseau. Lille (2003) 1-14.

"Lucretius' Gigantomachy." Lucretius and His Intellectual Background. Edited by K.A. Algra, M.H. Koenen, and P.H. Schrijvers. 187-192. (K.A. Algra, M.H. Koenen, and P.H. Schrijvers)

"Selections from "The Poetry of Greece"." The Charioteer: an Annual Review of Modern Greek Culture vol. 39 no. 40, 87-105.

"The Trial of Socrates at Herculaneum." Atti del Colloquio Internazionale: I Papiri Ercolanesi e la Storia della Filosofia antica vol. 33 Chronache Ercolaneis (2003). (Naples)

"Philodemus on the Plain Speaking of the Other Philosophers." Philodemus and the New Testament World. Edited by John Fitzgerald. Leiden (2003). ((55-71) (Chapter 6 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"The Scandal of Dionysos on Paros: The Mnesiepes Inscription E3." Prometheus vol. 27 (2002) 97-111.

"Translation of Aristotle’s Hymn to Virtue." Athens: From the Classical Period to the Present Day (5th century B. C. – A. D. 2000) (2002) 128. (Athens)

"Homer: The Song of the Sirens." The American Poetry Review vol. 31 no. 6, (2002) 45.

"Plato (the Republic)." The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English. Edited by Olive Classe. vol. 2 Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (2001) 1080-1082. (London)

"Diogenes and his Gods." Epikureismus in der späten Republik und der Kaiserzeit (2000).

"Heroes and heroines." Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. Edited by Graham Speake. (2000) 742-744.

"The Metamorphosis of Ovid in the Commedia." Mito e Poesia: Atti del secondo seminario dantesco internazionale. Edited by Michelangelo Picone and Tatiana Crivelli. (1999) 69-87.

"The Invention of Atlantis: The Anatomy of a Fiction." Proceedins of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Edited by ed. John J. Cleary and Gary M. Gurtler, S. J., E. J. Brill, Leiden. vol. 15 Köln (1999) 1-21. (Boston)

"The Theory of the Literary Persona in Antiquity." Materiali e discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici vol. 40 (1998) 9-40.

"Translation of Plato's Critias." The Complete Dialogues of Plato. Edited by J. M. Cooper. Hackett Publishing Co. (1997) 1292-1306. (Indianapolis and Cambridge, Mass)

"Articles on Dialogue (Greek and Latin), Diogenes of Oenoanda, Phaedrus (Epicureus), Poets, Lyric and Elegiac, Polystratus, Zeno (Sidonius)." Encyclopedia of Classical Philosophy. Edited by Donald J. Zeyl. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc (1997). (Westport, Connecticut)

"The Fate of Fortuna." Oxymoron 73-78.

"Greek Poets and Strangers." A Dedication to George Seferis, The New Griffin vol. 2 (1997) 39-47.

"The Essential Karaghiozis." American School of Classical Studies at Athens Newsletter vol. 40 (1997) 5.

"Picturing Diogenes." The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and its Legacy. Edited by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé. University of California Press (1996) 366-387. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London)

"Framing the Margins of Philodemus and Poetry." Philodemus & Poetry: Poetic Theory & Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus, & Horace. Edited by Dirk Obbink. Oxford University Press (1995) 3-14. (New York and Oxford)

"The Origins of the Socratic Dialogue." The Socratic Movement. Edited by Paul A. Vander Waerdt. Cornell University Press (1994). (Ithaca and London)

"Plato's Magnesia." Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald. Edited by Joseph Farrell and Ralph M. Rosen. University of Michigan Press (1993) 435-445.

"William Ayers Arrowsmith: The Years at Johns Hopkins." In Memoriam William Arrowsmith, Arion Third Series 2 & 3 (1993) 263-267.

"Plato's First Words." Beginnings in Classical Literature: Yale Classical Studies. Edited by F. M. Dunn and Thomas Cole. vol. 29 (1992) 113-129.

"Columbus' Senecan Prophecy." Brief Mention, American Journal of Philology vol. 113 (1992) 617-620.

"The World of Hesiod." The Ramus Essays on Hesiod II: Ramus. Edited by Apostolos N. Athanassakis. vol. 21.2 (1992) 131-155.

"On a Forgotten Kind of Reading." Leo Strauss's Thought: Toward a Critical Engagement. Edited by Alan Udoff. (1991) 252-266. (Boulder and London)

"Alcman's Partheneion." Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica vol. 39 (1991) 47-67.

"Missing Persons: or The Selfless Greeks." The Search for the Individual: Roots of Western Civilization. Edited by W. J. Carroll, Jr., J. J. Furlong, C. Stephen Mann, Peter Lang. (1990) 13-22. (New York)

"A Lost Epicurean Community." Tradition and Innovation in Epicureanism: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Edited by Paul A. Vander Waerdt. vol. 30 (1989) 313-335. (reprinted as Chapter 15 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"Dante's Broken Faith: The Sin of the Second Circle." Dante Today. Edited by Amilcare Ianucci, Quaderni di Italianistica. vol. 10 (1989) 91-108.

"Reading the Republic." Chapter 1 in Platonic Readings / Platonic Writings. Edited by Charles Griswold, Jr., Routledge and Kegan Paul. (1988) 19-33, 269-272. (reprinted with corrections , Penn State University Press, 2002)

"The Archaeology of the Temple to Juno in Carthage (Aen. 1.446-93)." Classical Philology vol. 832 (1988) 195-205.

"C. P. Cavafy: The Poet in the Reader." Journal of Modern Greek Studies vol. 5 (1987) 65-83.

"Gaps in the Universe of the Platonic Dialogues." Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy. Edited by John J. Cleary. vol. 3 University Press of America (1987) 71-94.

"The Cults of Epicurus." Cronache ercolanesi vol. 16 (1986) 12-28. (reprinted as Chapter 5 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"The Art of Glaukos (Plato, Phaedo 108D4-9)." American Journal of Philology vol. 106 (1985) 230-236.

"The Cult of Epicurus: An Interpretation of Philodemus On Epicurus (PHERC. 1232) and Other Texts." Atti del XVII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia (1984) 677-679.

"The Means to Epicurus' Salvation: The 'Crux' at Diogenes of Oenoanda, NF 7 II 12." Studi in onore di Adelmo Barigazzi I, Sileno vol. 10 (1984) 169-175. (reprinted as Chapter 12 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"Individual and Community in the First Generation of the Epicurean School." SUZHTHSIS: Studi sull'epicureismo greco e romano offerti a Marcello Gigante vol. I (1983) 255-279. (reprinted as Chapter 4 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"Epicurus in the Archives of Athens." Studies in Attic Epigraphy, History, and Topography presented to Eugene Vanderpool, Hesperia vol. XIX (1982). (reprinted as Chapter 3 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"Georg Luck and a Decade of AJP." American Journal of Philology vol. 103 (1982) 1-3.

"Unspeakable Words in Greek Tragedy." American Journal of Philology vol. 103 (1982) 277-298. (reprinted in Greek Literature, ed. Gregory Nagy, London 2001)

"An Epicurean Interpretation of Dreams." American Journal of Philology vol. 101 reprinted as Chapter 14 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998 (1980) 342-365.

"Socrates' Prayer to Pan." Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox. Edited by G. Bowersock, W. Burkert, and M. Putnam. Berlin (1979) 345-353. (New York)

"Philippson's 'Basilica' and Diogenes' Stoa." American Journal of Philology vol. 99 (1978) 120-123. (reprinted as Chapter 13 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"The Silence of Hermippos: Greece in the Poetry of Cavafy." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies vol. 3 (1977) 95-116. (reprinted in The Mind and Art of C. P. Cavafy, Denise Harvey & Co., Athens, 1983: Athens: 157-181)

"Lucretius contra Empedoclen: A Textual Note." The Classical Journal vol. 73 (1977) 27-29.

"A Gymnasium Inventory from the Athenian Agora." Hesperia vol. 46 (1977) 259-267.

"The Sources of Lucretius' Inspiration." Études sur l'epicurisme antique, Cahiers de Philologie I. Edited by Jean Bollack and André Laks. (1976) 203-227. (reprinted as Chapter 8 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"The Tragic and Comic Poet of the Symposium." Arion vol. 2 (1975) 238-261. (reprinted in Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy II, Ed. J. Anton and A. Preus, State University of New York Press: Albany: 186-202 and Greek Literature, ed. Gregory Nagy, London 2001)

"Sailing to Lampsacus: Diogenes of Oenoanda, New Fragment 7." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies vol. 14 (1973) 49-59. (reprinted as Chapter 11 of Paradosis and Survival,1998)

"Epicurus' Last Will and Testament." Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie vol. 55 (1973) 252-280. (Chapter 1 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"Classical Studies in Small Liberal Arts Colleges." The Classical Journal vol. 68:2 (1972/73) 155-160.

"Socrates' Mulishness and Heroism." Phronesis vol. 17 (1972) 53-60.

"Epicurus' Kyria Doxa XVII." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies vol. 13 (1972) 59-66. (reprinted as Chapter 2 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"Fragmentum Adespotum 976." Transactions of the American Philological Association vol. 101 (1970) 119-129. (reprinted in Greek Literature, ed. Gregory Nagy, London 2001)

"Aeschylus' Trigeron Mythos." Hermes vol. 97 (1969) 1-9.

"De Rerum Natura: Greek Physis and Epicurean Physiology (Lucretius 1.1-148)." Transactions of the American Philological Association vol. 100 (1969) 119-129. (reprinted as Chapter 7 of Paradosis and Survival, 1998)

"The Aspiration of ethmos." Glotta vol. 46 (1968) 15-18.

"The Daggers at Agamemnon 714-715." Philologus vol. 110 (1966) 128-131.

Forthcoming

Reports on Demetrios of Lakonia, Lucretius, and Diogenes of Oenoanda for Post Hellenistic Philosophy: 100BC-AD200. . Edited by ed. R. W. Sharples and Richard Sorabji. .

Archlochos of Paros: Cult and Image. Proceedings of the Second Congresss on the Cyclades, Archilochos and his Age .

The Athenian Garden. The Cambridge Companion to Epicurus. Edited by James Warren. .

Dialogue and Dialectic, Socratic. Scribners New Dictionary of the History of Ideas (2004).

The Survival of Apollo: From Dante's Buono Appollo to Bernini's Apollo and Daphne. Apolline Politics and Poetics, The European Cultural Center at Delphi (July, 2003).

Papers Submitted

"In the Wake of Plato's Atlantis: Emerging Utopian Islands." Syllecta Classica (forthcoming).

In Preparation

D. Clay. Chapter on "Plato and Myth". in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Myth,. Edited by ed. Roger Woodard, Cambridge University Press. .

Dante's Parnassus: The Pagan Poetry of the Divine Comedy. The University of Pennsylvania Press (in progress).

The Trials of Philosophy: Being the Apologies of Plato, Xenophon, Isocrates, & Libanius with the Trials of Palamedes. FOCUS Publishing (in progress). (Newburyport, Massachusetts)

The Art of Hell: Dante's Inferno and the Religous Art in Tuscany from the early Trecento to 1579. (in progress).

Reviews

Review of Martin Ferguson Smith, Supplement to Diogenes of Oinoanda: The Epicurean Inscription (La Scuola di Epicuro, Supplement 3). Naples 2003 Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2004).

The Slightest Swerve, review of Don Fowler: Lucretius on Atomic Motion. The Times Literary Supplement 14:32 (March, 2003).

Review of Maurizio Bettini, The Portrait of the Lover (Berkeley . Los Angeles . London 1998). The Classical World 95 (2002) 456-457.

Review of Gregory Claeys and Liman Tower Sargent, The Utopian Reader (New York London 1999). International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2001) 548-554.

Plato's Atlantis and the Exploding Planet, review of A. F. Alford: The Atlantis Secret: A Complete Decoding of Plato's Lost Continent. The Classical Review 56-68.

Review of Roger Shattuck, Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography (1997). International Journal of the Classical Tradition 6 (1998) 259-262.

Review of Tiziano Dorandi, Filodemo, Storia dei filosofi: La Stoà da Zenone a Panezio (PHerc. 1018) (Leiden 1994). American Journal of Philology 118 (1997) 146-149.

Review of Paul Zanker, The Mask of Socrates: The Image of the Intellectual in Antiquity (Berkeley . Los Angeles and London1995). The Classical Journal 92 (1997) 425-429.

Review of Martha Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (1994). Literature and Philosophy 20 (1996) 501-505.

Review of David Ricks, The Shade of Homer: A Study of Modern Greek Poetry (1989). Arion Third Series4 (1996) 206-221.

Charles Segal, Lucretius on Death and Anxiety (Princeton 1990). American Journal of Philology 89 (1994) 87-91.

Review of Malcolm Davis, Poetarum Melicorum Graecorum Fragmenta I (1991). American Journal of Philology 115 (1994) 453-456.

Review of Gabriele Giannantoni, Socratis et Socraticorum Reliquiae (1990). The Classical Journal 88 (1993) 296-300.

Hellenistic Philosophy: Schools, Systems, and Scepticism, Review of A. A. Long and David Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers (Cambridge 1987). Ancient Philosophy 13:3 (1993) 379-393.

Review of Philip Mitsis, Epicurus' Ethical Theory: The Pleasures of Invulnerability (1988). Classical World 84 (1990) 62.

Review of Bernard Frisher, The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece (1982). American Journal of Philology 105 (1984) 484-489.

Review of Tullia Ritti, Iscrizioni e relievi greci nel Museo Maffeiano di Verona (1981). Classical World 78 (1984) 130.

Review of J. M. Snyder, Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura (1980). American Journal of Philology 103 (1982) 220-223.

Review of Edmund Keeley, Cavafy's Alexandria (1976). Modern Language Notes 92 (1977) 1145-1159.

Review of Martin West, Elegi et Iambi Graeci II (1972). American Journal of Philology 96 (1975) 397-398.

Platonic Studies and the Study of Plato, Review of Gregory Vlastos, Platonic Studies (1973). Arion 2 (1975) 116-132.

Review of Martin Ferguson Smith, Thirteen New Fragments of Diogenes of Oenoanda (1974). American Journal of Philology 97 (1975) 306-309.

Review of Edelstein and Kidd, Posidonius: The Fragments I (1972). Classical Folia 28 (1974) 115-117.

Review of Bollack, Bollack, and Wisman, La lettre d'Epicure (1971). Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 56 (1974) 188-193.

Review of L. Perelli, Lucrezio: poeta dell'angoscia (1969). American Journal of Philology 92 (1971) 119-121.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Junior Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1974-75

Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D. C., 1969-70

Fulbright Fellow to France, The Universities of Montpellier and Poitiers, 1960-61

Professional Lectures

Invited Lectures:

The Art of Hell, The Rembert W. Patrick Lecture, Guilford College,, February 06, 2007

Text and Image: Dante’s Inferno and The Art of Hell, East Carolina University, March 1, 2006

The ‘New Empedocles’ and the old Problem of Philosophical Poetry, The John Brodie and Mary McDiarmid lecture, The University of Washington, November 17, 2005

The Art of Hell, University of Washington, November 16, 2005

The Art of Hell, The University of Victoria, British Columbia, November 15, 2005

The ‘New Empedocles and the old Problem of Philosophical Poetry, The University of Victoria, British Columbia, November 15, 2005

Lucrezio, Venere, Cibele, l’echo, l’amore, gli dèi, Università degli Studi, Palermo, October 27, 2005

The Hangover of Plato’s Symposium in Renaissance Italy: From Bruni (1435) to Castiglione (1526), Center for Hellenic Studies, August 19, 2005

Statius’ Conversion, The University of Pennsylvania, March 17, 2005

The New Empedocles, The University of Pennsylvania, March 16, 2005

Who Speaks for Aristophanes? The Speech of Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium, Cambridge, April 25, 2004

In the Wake of Plato's Atlantis: The Continuations of Plato's Atlantikos Logos from Theopompos to Iamboulos, Cambridge Literary Seminar, Cambridge, April 22, 2004

The Art of Hell: From Late Antiquity to Dante, The Center for Late Ancient Studies, February 06, 2004

Seferis' Parnassos, The Foundation for Hellenic Culture, New York, October 05, 2003

The Survival of Apollo: From Dante's Buono Appollo to Berninini's Apollo and Daphne, European Cultural Foundation at Delphi, Apolline Politcs and Poetics, July 08, 2003

The Death of Virgil, College Lecture, St John's College of Santa Fe, February 08, 2003

The New Empedocles and the Problem of Philosophical Poetry, The Tenth Annual Lecture in Honor of Rosamond Kent Sprague, Columbia, South Carolina, April 04, 2002

Lo scandalo di Archiloco a Paro, The Universities of Florence (November 21), Siena (November 28), and Pisa (December 5), 2000

Conference Papers:

Lucian’s Philosophical Island, The American Philological Association, San Diego, California, January 07, 2007

Archilochos of Paros: Cult and Image, Archilochos and his Age, Paros, October 18, 2005

Cult and Image: The Earliest Iconography of Cult, Archilochos and his Age, Paros, October 01, 2004

Diogenes of Oenoanda, Demetrios of Lakonia, Philosophy from 100 BC to 200 AD, The London Institute of Classical Studies, London, July 23, 2004

The Disruption of Discovery: The New Simonides, The New Empedocles, The New Poseidippos, Presidential Panel, Classical Association of the Midwest and South, April 15, 2004

The Art of Platonic Quotation, Annual Meetings of the American Philological Association in New Orleans, January 05, 2003

The Trial of Socrates at Herculaneum, Congresso Internazionale, I Papiri Ercolanesi e la Storicia della Filosofia Greca, Naples, October 20, 2002

Professional Service

Departmental Committees/Service

Duke Department of Classical Studies, Director of Graduate Studies, 2001-present

Other Service

Member of The Publications Committee of The American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 2006-2008

Elected as Fellow of the Lorenzo Valla Foundation, Rome (Socio della Fondazione Lorenzo Vall), 2007-present

Editorial Board, The Journal of the History of Ideas, 2006-present

Editorial Board, The Charioteer, 2006-present

Editorial Board, Arion, Member, 1990-2004

Field Editor (for ancient philosophy) for the new Oxford Encyclopedia of the Classical World, ed. Michael Gagarin and Elaine Fantham, Oxford Universit, 2003

Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Duke University Press), Associate Editor, 1995-present

Masters of Latin Literature, (Cornell University Press), Editor, 1985-present

AJP Monographs in Classical Philology, Editor, 1985-89

The American Journal of Philology, Editor, 1982-87

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Associate Editor, 1983 - January 1, 1986

The American Journal of Philology, Associate Editor, 1976-81

The Classical Journal, Associate Editor (for CAAS), 1974-77

Last modified: 2008/05/29



Home > Faculty > Curriculum Vitae: Diskin Clay