Overview
Dante is a second-year Ph.D. student in Interdisciplinary Classics. In 2021, he earned his BA in Classical Languages magna cum laude from The College of Wooster and investigated foundation stories' influence on and interaction with early Roman imperial society in his Honors thesis, “Two Sides of the Same Coin: Vergil and Ovid’s Clashing Portrayals of Individual and Group Identity.” While Dante maintains a wide range of interests, he is most passionate about investigating the relationship between text and image in the ancient Mediterranean manuscript tradition and the later, indeed ongoing, reception of Mediterranean antiquity with emphasis on Rome's legacy in medieval and early modern manuscripts. He is currently the secretary of Cornell’s Medieval Studies Graduate Association (MSGA) and also works with Professor Emeritus Jeff Rusten on the Lexeis project, using Python to digitize single author ancient Greek lexica. Alongside his work in Classics, Dante has nurtured a love of music and theatre. He has sung in various languages (including Latin), both solo and in choral environments, and acted onstage in twelve productions, including Euripides' Medea (Jason) and Terence's Adelphoe (Demea).
Interdisciplinary Classics Concentration