Daniel Tober

Associate Professor of the Classics

Department/Office Information

Classics

21C Lawrence Hall

BA, Brown University

MA, Harvard University

MPhil, Oxford University

PhD, Princeton University

Greek and Roman Historiography

Local Historiography

Local Identity and the Construction of Community

Achaemenid Persia

Alexander the Great and the Alexander Romance

Greek and Roman History

Greek and Latin Historiography

Greek and Latin Language and Literature

“Greek Local Historiography and Its Audiences,” Classical Quarterly 67.2 (2017), 460-484.
“Politeiai and Spartan Local History,” Historia 59.4 (2010), 412-431.

“Greek Local Identities,” in V. Manolopoulou, J. Skinner, and C. Tsouparopoulou (eds.), Identities in Antiquity (Routledge, 2025), 330-351.
“’Herakles is Stronger, Seleukos’: Resistance and History in Pontic Herakleia,” in P. Kosmin and I. Moyer (eds.), Cultures of Resistance in the Hellenistic East (OUP, 2022), 203-230.
“Hellenistic Historiography,” in Oxford Classical Dictionary (2022), 11,000 words.
“Greek Local History and the Shape of the Past,” in W. Pohl and V. Wieser (eds.), Historiographies of Identity Vol. 1: Historiographies as Reflection about Community: Ancient and Christian Models (Brepols 2019), 133-56.
“Megarians’ Tears: Localism and Dislocation in Megarian Memory,” in H. Beck and P J. Smith (eds.), Megarian Moments. The Local World of an Ancient Greek City-State, Teiresias Supplements, Volume 1 (2018), 183-207.

“Hesychios of Miletos (BNJ 390),” in I. Worthington (ed.), Brill’s New Jacoby, 2^nd Edition (2024), 56,000 words.
“Euagon of Samos (BNJ 535),” in I. Worthington (ed.), Brill’s New Jacoby, 2^nd Edition (2023), 12,000 words.
“Alexis of Samos (BNJ 539),” in I. Worthington (ed.), Brill’s New Jacoby, 2^nd Edition (2023), 5,000 words.
“Kineas of Thessaly (BNJ 603),” in I. Worthington (ed.), Brill’s New Jacoby, 2^nd Edition (2022), 7,000 words.

“Atarneus,” in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 181-182.
“Carystus,” in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 277-278.
“Cydonia,” in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 381.
“Erythrae,” in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 526.
“Euripus,” in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 548.
“Histiaea,” in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 692.
“Styra,” in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 1380.
“Teus,” in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021), 1417.

Lisa Irene Hau, Rethinking Hellenistic Historiography: The Immersive Histories of Duris, Phylarchus and Agatharchides, Classical Philology (2026)
Nicoletta Bruno, Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities. Narrating Early Cultural History in Ancient Greece and Rome, Sehepunkt Ausgabe 26 (2026).
R. Thomas, Polis Histories, Collective Memories and the Greek World, Ancient History Bulletin 10 (2020), 65-69.
J.D. Grainger, Great Power Diplomacy in the Hellenistic World, BMCR (2018), 2,650 words.
K. Clarke, Making Time for the Past: Local History and the Polis, Storia della Storiografia 58 (2010), 147-54.