Daniel Kosasa (USA)

Daniel Kosasa
MSt in Greek and/ or Roman History

I am an historian of late Antiquity whose primary area of inquiry is the appearance of eschatological schemes in fifth and sixth century historiography in both the Eastern and Western empires. My dissertation whilst at Oxford, for which I received the proxime accessit, argued that Orosius' identification of Rome with the fourth and last empire from the Book of Daniel is the best means to explain medieval attempts at resuscitating the Roman Empire. Alongside this dissertation, I have written on the tenability of applying Freud's theory of collective consciousness to the Middle Republican Roman state; I have also written extensively on Zosimus' Historia Nova, reactions to the sacking of Rome in 409, and the epistemological problems inherent to doing ancient history.

Life After Ertegun House

In the years after my time at Ertegun House, I returned to New York City and taught Latin and Greek at Bard Early College, worked in higher education consulting, and am now pursuing a doctorate in history at the Princeton University, working with Helmut Reimitz on the use of Orosius in early medieval historiography while also pursuing a deep interest in the history of divorce in Frankish legal sources. 

Outside of my intellectual interests, I love to travel by bike through Eastern Europe, collect and age wine, and cook. I can cook a very mean rib eye.