Joshua D. Sosin, Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History

Joshua D. Sosin
Office Location:  229A Allen Building
Email Address: send me a message
Web Page:  http://www.duke.edu/~jds15

Education:

Ph.DDuke University2000
BA, summa cum laudeMary Washington College1994
Research Interests:

Digital humanities. History from documents; papyrology, epigraphy, numismatics, palaeography. Economic history; money, land and the state; banking; civic finance; economics of Greek and Roman religion. Latin poetry, especially satire; literary allusion; ancient scholia and commentaries; digital humanities.

Duties:

Associate Editor, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies

Co-Director, Duke Data Bank of Documentary Papyri

Co-PI, Duke component of the Advanced Papyrological Information System

Current Ph.D. Students  

Representative Publications

  1. John F. Oates, Roger S. Bagnall, Sarah J. Clackson, Alexandra A. O’Brien, Joshua D. Sosin, Terry G. Wilfong, and Klaas A. Worp, Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets (2001), David Brown
  2. Unwelcome Dedications: Public Law and Private Religion in Hellenistic Laodicea by the Sea, Classical Quarterly, vol. 55 (2005), pp. 130-139
  3. Alexanders and Stephanephoroi at Delphi, Classical Philology, vol. 99 (2004), pp. 191-208
  4. Grain for Delos, Museum Helveticum, vol. 60 (2003), pp. 65-79
  5. Grain for Andros, Hermes, vol. 130 (2002), pp. 131-145
  6. Accounting and Endowments, Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik., vol. 16 (2001), pp. 161-175 (appeared 2003.)
  7. Ausonius’ Juvenal and the Winstedt Fragment, Classical Philology, vol. 95 (2000), pp. 199-206
  8. Lucretius, Seneca and Persius 1.1-2, Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. 129 (1999), pp. 281-299