Daniel W. Berman, Associate Professor, earned his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. from Yale University, both in Classics. His research interests include archaic and classical Greek poetry and myth, mythography, and topography and ancient geography. His current research focuses on how Greek mythic texts represent physical space, especially the urban environment of Greek Thebes, and the presence of Greek Thebes and its territory of Boeotia in verses of the Boeotian poets Pindar and Corinna. He has published articles on Aeschylus, the city of Thebes, the Dirce spring, and related subjects, and also one on herdsmen in Theocritus. His monograph, Myth and Culture in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes, was published in 2007 by Edizioni dell'Ateneo, and he is translator from French of a book by Claude Calame, Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony (Princeton 2003). Dan teaches courses in Greek and Latin language and literature, classical myth, and ancient civilization and culture. He also maintains a teaching interest in Roman archaeology and topography. In 2001-2002 he taught at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome as an assistant professor, and he is looking forward to returning to ICCS-Rome as Professor-In-Charge in 2012-2013. Please visit his website for a full CV. dwberman@temple.edu
