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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
The Pax Romana is a 200-year period in Roman history believed to have been the most peaceful and prosperous. Was it really a Golden Age?
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.
For the aristocracy of ancient Greece and Rome, suicide, if carried out “correctly,” could constitute a “noble death,” bestowing dignity on the deceased.
The Harpies appear throughout Greek mythology as part-human and part-bird mythological beasts that conjure feelings of dread and disgust in their victims.
