Daniel Anderson

Dr Daniel Anderson is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities at Coventry University. He holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Cambridge, where he was a scholar at St John’s College. His research focuses on two major areas: premodern book cultures in Ancient Greece and Old Comedy's formal experimentation in Athenian theatre. Anderson has supervised multiple doctoral candidates exploring classical reception and pedagogy. He contributes to academic governance as a member of the Classical Association Journals Board and editorial board of ARGO. His work bridges literary analysis with historical context, examining textual dynamics, authorial self-fashioning, and cross-cultural theatrical rivalry in antiquity.

• Education: BA (Liberal Arts, Concordia University), MPhil/PhD (Classics, University of Cambridge)

Research interests include ancient Greek poetry's structural innovations, particularly in sympotic verse and Hellenistic epigrams. He investigates how comic playwrights like Crates signaled their artistic experimentation through parallels with contemporary scientific advancements. Recent publications explore Vitruvian geometric principles, semantic wordplay in archaic poetry, and pseudepigraphic strategies in Callimachus’ epigrams.

Anderson has co-edited volumes on spaces for learning in antiquity and authored a monograph on pre-Aristophanic Old Comedy. His collaborative work with Raffaella Cribiore has addressed educational spaces in ancient Mediterranean contexts. Supervision spans topics from classical pedagogy’s modern reception to pharaonic ideology in ancient Egypt.