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Fragment of a marble Sarcophagus
ca. 230-240 ACE
Duke Museum of Art
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Joshua D. Sosin
 
 

Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of Classical Studies and History
Office Location: 229A Allen Building
Office Phone:
Email Address: joshua.sosin@duke.edu
Web Page: http://www.duke.edu/~jds15
Teaching (Fall 2009):

Education:
  • Ph.D Duke University, 2000
  • BA, summa cum laude Mary Washington College, 1994

Research Interests:

History from documents; papyrology, epigraphy, numismatics, palaeography. Economic history; money, land and the state; banking; civic finance. Latin poetry, especially satire; literary allusion; ancient scholia and commentaries
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

Representative Publications   (More 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.  David Brown, 2001.
  2. "Unwelcome Dedications: Public Law and Private Religion in Hellenistic Laodicea by the Sea." Classical Quarterly  vol. 55  (2005): 130-139.
  3. "Alexanders and Stephanephoroi at Delphi." Classical Philology  vol. 99  (2004): 191-208.
  4. "Grain for Delos." Museum Helveticum  vol. 60  (2003): 65-79.
  5. "Grain for Andros." Hermes  vol. 130  (2002): 131-145.
  6. "Accounting and Endowments." Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik.  vol. 16  (2001): 161-175. (appeared 2003)
  7. "Ausonius’ Juvenal and the Winstedt Fragment." Classical Philology  vol. 95  (2000): 199-206.
  8. "Lucretius, Seneca and Persius 1.1-2." Transactions of the American Philological Association  vol. 129  (1999): 281-299.
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