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Joshua D. Sosin

Joshua D. Sosin

Associate Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
joshua.sosin@duke.edu
Box 90103, 233 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708-0103
229A Allen Bldg, Dept. of Classical Studies, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

Manumission at Chaironeia

Journal Article Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik · January 1, 2023 Cite

The Margins of a Law: The Compositioon of IG IX.12.3 718

Journal Article Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik · January 1, 2022 Cite

MANUMISSIONS AT ELATEIA (IG IX, 1 124-127)

Journal Article Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik · January 1, 2022 Cite

Death on a Road (Dem. 23.53)

Journal Article Historia · 2016 Open Access Cite

A Metic was a Metic

Journal Article Historia · 2016 In Classical Athens, an immigrant who stayed longer than about a month was required to register a citizen as prostates and to commence paying the metoikion. So were freed slaves. A recent study treats these freeborn and freedman metics as distinct legal ty ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Manumission with Paramone: Conditional Freedom?

Journal Article TAPA · 2015 A common view holds that slaves freed on condition of paramone were juridical halfings, legally half-free, half-slave. This paper argues that this view is based on a misunderstanding of the Greek sources, mainly epigraphic; that the intermediate or hybrid ... Open Access Cite

“Those who live apart” were Mercenaries

Journal Article Historia · 2015 Since antiquity, scholars have thought that the phrase τοὺς χωρὶς οἰκοῦντας (Dem. 4.36) indicated a special class of slaves, or freedmen, or (Kazakévich) an unspecified form of free alien. The argument advanced in Dem. 4, this paper suggests, shows that th ... Open Access Link to item Cite

A Metic was a Metic

Journal Article · 2015 In Classical Athens, an immigrant who stayed longer than about a month was required to register a citizen as prostates and to commence paying the metoikion. So were freed slaves. A recent study treats these freeborn and freedman metics as distinct legal ty ... Open Access Cite

“Those who live apart” were Mercenaries

Journal Article · 2015 Since antiquity, scholars have thought that the phrase τοὺς χωρὶς οἰκοῦντας (Dem. 4.36) indicated a special class of slaves, or freedmen, or (Kazakévich) an unspecified form of free alien. The argument advanced in Dem. 4, this paper suggests, shows that th ... Open Access Cite

Manumission with paramone: Conditional freedom?

Journal Article · January 1, 2015 A common view holds that slaves freed on condition of paramone were juridical chimeras, legally half-free, half-slave. This paper argues that this view is based on a misunderstanding of the Greek sources, mainly epigraphic; that the intermediate or hybrid ... Open Access Cite

Tax exemption and Athenian imperial politics: The case of Chalkis

Journal Article Transactions of the American Philological Association · September 1, 2014 This paper argues that the clause at IG I3 40.52-57, which refers to taxation of aliens at Chalkis and has long puzzled scholars, stipulated that any non-Chalkidian who had been granted immunity from Athenian tele, conditional on residence at Athens or not ... Full text Open Access Cite

Notes on Inscriptions

Journal Article · 2014 Open Access Cite

Endowments and Taxation in the Hellenistic World

Other Ancient Society · 2014 This paper suggests that a number of well known Hellenistic endowments were crafted in such a way that, in addition to the pious purposes that they served, they also allowed founders and elite peers to limit tax-liability by sheltering real estate from the ... Full text Open Access Cite

Notes on Inscriptions

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 2014 Cite

The Son of Suda On-Line

Other · December 12, 2013 The Son of Suda On-Line (SoSOL) represents the first steps towards a collaborative, editorially-controlled, online editor for the Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (DDbDP). Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Integrating Digital Papyrology Phase ... Open Access Cite

Papyrological Navigator

Other · 2010 This is not a book, but digital humanities infrastructure built by a team that I direct under grant-funded research. http://papyri.info ... Cite

Magnesian inviolability

Journal Article Transactions of the American Philological Association · January 1, 2009 In 221/20 the citizens of Magnesia on the Maeander sought to create crowned games in honor of Artemis Leukophryene. The goddess had appeared to them and Delphi instructed that "it is more agreeable and better for those who revere Apollo Pythios and Artemis ... Full text Open Access Cite

The New Letter from Pasion

Journal Article ZPE · 2008 Open Access Cite

Homer in the Papyri

Journal Article DIG Magazine · January 2004 Cite

An Endowed Peace

Journal Article Museum Helveticum · 2004 Open Access Cite

Half again More

Journal Article Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete · 2004 Open Access Cite

Alexanders and Stephanephoroi at Delphi

Journal Article Classical Philology · January 1, 2004 Full text Open Access Cite

Stealing Livestock at Oxyrhyncha

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 2004 Cite

Acraephia Counts: Π for Π(ΕΤΤΑΡΕΣ)

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 2004 Open Access Cite

Palaeography and Bilingualism: P.Duk.inv. 320 and 675

Journal Article Chronique d’Égypte · 2003 Open Access Cite

Grain for Delos

Journal Article Museum Helveticum · 2003 Open Access Cite

Grain for Andros

Journal Article Hermes - Zeitschrift fur Klassische Philologie · December 1, 2002 Open Access Cite

Four Papyri concerning Pesouris, Basilikos Grammateus

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 2002 Open Access Cite

Boeotian Silver, Theban Agio and Bronze Drachmas

Journal Article Numismatic Chronicle · 2002 Open Access Cite

Two Attic Endowments

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 2002 Open Access Cite

Accounting and Endowments

Journal Article Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik. · 2001 Open Access Cite

Ausonius' Juvenal and the Winstedt Fragment

Journal Article Classical Philology · April 2000 Full text Open Access Cite

Agio at Delphi

Journal Article Numismatic Chronicle · 2000 Open Access Cite

A missing woman: the Hellenistic leases from Thespiae revisited

Journal Article GREEK ROMAN AND BYZANTINE STUDIES · 2000 Open Access Cite

Ausonian Allusions to Juvenal’s Satires

Journal Article Wiener Studien · 1999 Open Access Cite

Tyrian Stationarii at Puteoli

Journal Article Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 1999 Cite

Lucretius, Seneca and Persius 1.1-2

Journal Article Transactions of the American Philological Association · 1999 Open Access Cite

Reading Invisible Ink: Digital Imaging of P.Duk.inv. 716

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 1999 Cite

Abduction at the Threshing Floor: P.Duk.inv. 714-716

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 1999 Open Access Cite

A Word for Woman?"

Journal Article Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies · 1997 Cite

P.Duk.inv. 314: Agathis, Strategos and Hipparches of the Arsinoite Nome

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 1997 Cite

P.Duk.inv. 677: Aetos, from Arsinoite Strategos to Eponymous Priest

Journal Article Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik · 1997 Cite

Endowed Eponymous Festivals on Delos

Other Second-century BC Delos saw the creation of more than two dozen endowments, by men and women, Delians and aliens, and, most famously, Hellenistic royalty or their agents. Scholars agree that these underwrote festivals (mostly eponymous: The Antigoneia, Eut ... Open Access Cite

Endowed Eponymous Festivals on Delos

Journal Article Kernos: revue internationale et pluridisciplinaire de religion grecque antique Second-century BC Delos saw the creation of more than two dozen endowments, by men and women, Delians and aliens, and, most famously, Hellenistic royalty or their agents. Scholars agree that these underwrote festivals (mostly eponymous: The Antigoneia, Eu ... Open Access Cite

Ransom at Athens ([Dem.] 53.11)

Journal Article Historia: Zeitschrift fuer Alte Geschichte “The laws even command that he who is ransomed belongs to the one who ransomed him from the enemy, if he does not pay the ransom” ([Dem] 53.11). This is widely regarded as an exception to Solon’ s law against enslavement for debt. Harris has made a strong ... Open Access Cite