| William Johnson, Professor of Classical Studies
![William Johnson](https://fds.duke.edu/photos/fac/u12630.jpg) - Contact Info:
- Office Hours:
- On leave 2024-25.
- Education:
Ph.D. | Yale University | 1992 |
M.A. in Greek Literature | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | 1981 |
BA in English Literature & Latin Literature | Oberlin College | 1978 |
- Research Interests:
Greek historiography; Greek and Roman literature and cultural history; ancient books and readers; ancient music; literary papyri
- Curriculum Vitae
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Johnson, W. Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome.
Edited by Johnson, WA; Parker, H. Oxford University Press, 2009. 1-448 pp. [doi] [abs] [author's comments]
- Johnson, WA. Bookrolls and scribes in oxyrhynchus. University of Toronto Press, January, 2003. 1-414 pp. [abs] [author's comments]
- Johnson, WA. "The Oxyrhynchus Distributions in America: Papyri and Ethics." BASP (2012).
- Johnson, WA. "Libraries and Reading Culture in the High Empire." Ancient Libraries (2013).
- Johnson, WA. "Pliny Epistle. 9.36 and Demosthenes' Cave." Classical World 106.4 (2013): 665-668. [abs]
- Johnson, WA. "Cicero and Tyrannio: Mens addita videtur meis aedibus (ad Atticum iv.8.2)." Classical World 105.4 (2012): 471-477. [doi] [abs]
- Johnson, WA. "Teaching the Children How to Read: The Syllabary." Classical Journal 103.4 (2010): 445-463. [doi]
- Johnson, WA. "The Ancient Book." The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (2009).
- Johnson, WA. "Hesiod's Theogony: Reading the Proem as a Priamel." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 46.3 (2008): 231-235.
- Johnson, WA. "The Posidippus Papyrus: Bookroll and Reader." The New Posidippus: A Hellenistic Poetry Book (2005).
- Johnson, WA. "Reading cultures and education." Reading Between the Lines: New Perspectives on Foreign Language Literacies (2002).
- Johnson, WA. "New instrumental music from Graeco-Roman Egypt." Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 37 (2000): 17-36. (Appeared 2001)
- Johnson, WA. "Musical Evenings in the Early Empire: New Evidence from a Greek Papyrus with Musical Notation." Journal of Hellenic Studies 120 (2000): 57-85. [doi] [abs]
- Johnson, WA. "Toward a sociology of reading in classical antiquity." American Journal of Philology 121 (2000): 593-627. (Appeared 2001. Winner of the 2000 Gildersleeve
Prize.)
- Johnson, WA. "Dramatic Frame and Philosophic Idea in Plato." The American Journal of Philology 119 (1998): 577-598.
- Johnson, WA. "Oral Performance and the Composition of Herodotus' Histories." Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 35 (1994): 229-254. (appeared Fall 1995)
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