William A. Johnson
Professor in Classical Studies &
Schiff Family Dean of Humanities and the Arts
Duke University
William A. Johnson works broadly in the cultural history of Greece and Rome, with particular interest in ancient books, readers, and reading, and with a general interest in how literary pursuits intersect with cultural context in antiquity. He has lectured and published on Plato, Hesiod, Herodotus, Pliny (both Elder and Younger), Gellius, Lucian, and on a variety of topics relating to books and readers and publishing, both ancient and modern. Other work has focused on ancient music; he produced the editio princeps for two of the very rare papyrus documents containing ancient Greek music (see Ancient Music Web Site), and has a piece on pantomime in Rome. He has published 5 books, three dozen articles, and has given over 50 invited lectures to national and international audiences. He teaches a wide range of Greek and Latin topics to undergraduate and graduate audiences at Duke. At the moment, he is taking a three-year hiatus from teaching to serve as Duke's Dean of Humanities.
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Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire
OUP Handbook to the Second SophisticAn introduction to the Greece and Rome of the second century that puts in socio-cultural context the important (but long neglected) literary output that falls under the rubric, "Second Sophistic" (Oxford University Press, 2017, paperback with corrections 2021).
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William A. Johnson
Department of Classical Studies Duke University P. O. Box 90103 Durham, N.C. 27708-0103 Tel. (919) 684-2082 Fax (919) 681-4262 Office: Allen Building 229B Email: william.johnson@duke.edu Skype: wjohnson925 |