PhD Candidate
Daniel completed a BA in History at California State University East Bay in 2009, and an MA in History at San Diego State University in 2013, for which he wrote a thesis on the urban/rural divide in fifth-century Athens. Daniel’s primary research interests are in Greek history, ancient historiography, and the politics of Old Comedy. He is pursuing a dissertation that explores a seldom addressed feature of Aristophanes’ early political comedies – his references to and depictions of Athens’ empire – to help establish the existence of domestic opposition to Athenian imperialism, and the language of this opposition discernable in Aristophanes, and reflected in his contemporary Thucydides.