Originally from Canada, Daniel Unruh received his PhD in Classics from Cambridge in 2015. His research covers a wide variety of topics and periods, focussing particularly on Greece from the seventh to the fourth centuries BCE. He is especially interested in kingship, tyranny and other forms of one-man rule in ancient Greece, and in ancient Greek diplomacy and communication.
He is currently working on a book entitled "Talking to Tyrants in Classical Greek Thought", which will be available from Liverpool University Press in 2021.
Daniel is a supervisor for the Cambridge Classics Tripos where he has taught a wide range of subjects including Greek and Roman history, Greek tragedy and epic, and Ancient Greek language.
Daniel has long enjoyed sharing the Classical world with people of a wide range of ages and backgrounds, introducing them to the ways in which the ancient Greeks and Romans can seem, at the same time, startlingly familiar and surprisingly alien. His teaching style is informal, interactive, and collegial, and is often supplemented by visual and audio media.
