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William Johnson

William Johnson

Professor of Classical Studies
Classical Studies
william.johnson@duke.edu
Box 90103, Durham, NC 27708-0103
236 Allen Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours On leave 2024-25.  

Scholarly Works - Books

Punctuation, Iota Adscript, and Nu-movable in Ancient Literary Bookrolls

Book · 2025 Featured Publication A close study of scribal features for 400 ancient Greek literary papyri in bookroll format. ... Link to item Cite

Oxford Handbook to the Second Sophistic

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The Essential Herodotus

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Readers and Reading Culture in the High Roman Empire: A Study of Elite Communities

Book · May 1, 2010 Featured Publication Readers and Reading Culture in the High Empire examines the system and culture of reading among the elite in second-century Rome. The focus is on deep sociocultural contextualization for reading events within specific communities, and thus the investigatio ... Full text Cite

Bookrolls and scribes in oxyrhynchus

Book · January 1, 2003 Featured Publication Lying now under the sand 300 kilometres south of the coastal metropolis of Alexandria, the town of Oxyrhynchus rose to prominence under Egypt’s Hellenistic and Roman rulers. The 1895 British-led excavation revealed little in the way of buildings and other ... Cite