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Joshua D. Sosin, Assistant Professor, Classical Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	236 Allen Building
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/~jds15

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• CLST 307.01, ATHENIAN LAW Synopsis

  Reuben-Coo 126, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 413.01, POLSCI 380.01)

• CLST 283.01, GREEK HISTORY Synopsis

  Perkins 071, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 230.01)

Office Hours:

M 3:00-4:00p & T 9:00-10:00a; I do not maintain this site; if you would like to see current information please go to my web page.

Education:

Ph.D.	Duke University	2000
B.A.	University of Mary Washington	1994
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

Keywords:

Europe • Italy • Egypt • Latin • documents • papyrology • epigraphy • numismatics • palaeography • poetry

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Joanne Fairhurst  
• Chad E Austino  
• T. Ephraim Lytle  
• John Bauschatz  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Sosin, JP, Unwelcome dedications: Public law and private religion in Hellenistic Laodicea by the sea, Classical Quarterly, vol. 55 no. 1 (December, 2005), pp. 130-139, Cambridge University Press (CUP), ISSN 0009-8388 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
2. Sosin, JD, Alexanders and Stephanephoroi at Delphi, Classical Philology, vol. 99 no. 3 (January, 2004), pp. 191-208, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0009-837X [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
3. Sosin, JD, Grain for Delos, Museum Helveticum, vol. 60 no. 2 (2003), pp. 65-79 [repository]
4. Sosin, JD, Grain for Andros, Hermes - Zeitschrift fur Klassische Philologie, vol. 130 no. 2 (December, 2002), pp. 131-145, ISSN 0018-0777 [Gateway.cgi]
5. Sosin, JD, Accounting and Endowments, Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik., vol. 16 (2001), pp. 161-175 (appeared 2003.) [repository]
6. Sosin, JD, Ausonius' Juvenal and the Winstedt Fragment, Classical Philology, vol. 95 no. 2 (April, 2000), pp. 199-206, University of Chicago Press, ISSN 0009-837X [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
7. Sosin, JD, Lucretius, Seneca and Persius 1.1-2, Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. 129 (1999), pp. 281-299 [repository]