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Daniel Kershaw
Daniel J. Kershaw is a historian, with a BA in Ancient History from the University of Liverpool, and an MSt in Roman History from the University of Oxford. Since graduating from the latter in 2018, he has written many articles for Ancient History Magazine, History Cooperative, and TheCollector. He has a paper published with Illinois Classical Press, with another under peer review. Whilst he is comfortable writing about any aspect of history, his specialism is in Roman Imperial History. Aside from this, he works full-time as an Editor at Routledge Press.
Education:University of OxfordMSt Roman HistoryUniversity of LiverpoolBA Ancient HistoryExpertise:Articles by Daniel Kershaw
As with other totalitarian empires, gathering intelligence and enforcing the leadership’s agenda in the Roman world required a loyal and lethal secret police service.
Virgil describes a love affair between the Trojan prince Aeneas and the Carthaginian queen Dido in his Aeneid, serving as a pivotal symbolic plot device.
Philosopher or politician, sage or pragmatist? The life of Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger, tutor of Nero, highlights the brutality of imperial Rome.
The imperial biographer Suetonius is an important source for the lives of the Caesars, but how reliable are his accounts based on gossip and sensationalism?
Geta ruled as co-emperor with his father, Septimius Severus, and brother, Caracalla, at the start of the 3rd century before becoming the victim of fratricide.
How accurate is the depiction in Gladiator (2000) of Commodus as a vicious and debauched Roman emperor obsessed with the games in the Colosseum?