Biography

Daniel is a Junior Research Fellow in Classics at Trinity College, Cambridge (2024-2028). He previously read for a PhD in Classics as a Gates Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge (2019-2023), following a BA and MPhil in Classics and Ancient History (2013-2018) at the University of Sydney (2013-2018). Daniel works on Greek literature, especially of the Hellenistic and imperial periods. His current research, building on his PhD, explores the way(s) in which the Greek authors of the Roman Empire challenged, complicated, and sometimes cooperated with the vision of “empire without end” that featured so prominently in the propaganda of the Augustan (and post-Augustan) empire. He is finishing a book about the seacoast in the imperial Greek geographical imagination and beginning projects on the dynamics of Greek polytheism at the dawn of Christianity, the new vision(s) of the cosmos generated by the Christian intellectuals of late antiquity, and the possibilities and problematics of ecological approaches to the literatures of ancient Greece and Rome.

Previous Education

University of Sydney Ancient History 2019
University of Sydney Ancient History 2017