Daniel Markovich

Daniel Markovich is a philologist with a broad interest in Greek and Latin rhetoric, philosophy, and poetry. His research primarily explores how these three kinds of discourse shape the perception of the world and how were they used in ancient higher education. He has published on Lucretius, including a monograph titled The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ De rerum natura (Brill 2008), as well as Vergil, the Vergilian Aetna, and Horace. More recently, his work focused on Greco-Roman philosophical protreptic as a kind of writing. His book Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic (Brill 2022) examines Greco-Roman exhortations to philosophy as the first texts in Western literature to systematically address the ultimate goals of education. He is also interested in style and stylistic analysis and has published on the use of hyperbaton in Greek literary sentence, the concept of virtues and faults of style in Greek and Roman rhetorical theory, and the prose style of Cicero and Martianus Capella. He is currently writing a commentary on Cicero’s rhetorical treatise Partitiones oratoriae. Full CV available here. 

Ph.D.: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2006 (Classical Philology)

M.A.: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2001 (Classical Philology)

B.A.: University of Belgrade Belgrade, 1995 (Classical Philology)

· Greek and Roman Education
· Greek and Roman Rhetoric and Literary Criticism
· Greek and Roman Philosophy
· Republican and Augustan Latin Poetry
 

2007 -2009 Visiting Assistant Professor , Temple University, Philadelphia

Peer Reviewed Publications

“Hyperbaton in the Greek Literary Sentence” GRBS 46.2 (2006) 127–46

“Lucretius 1.471-7: Tragic Flames in DRN” Mnemosyne 61.4 (2008) 647–50

“Lucretius 1.638-44: A New Facet and an Old Problem” Mnemosyne 62.1 (2009) 100–103

“Horace, Odes 3.7.21: Scopulis surdior Icari,” CQ 60.2 (2010) 659–61

“Lucretius 3.978–1023 and the Hellenistic Philosophical Polemics against the Grammarians,” ICS 35–36 (2010–11) 143–54

“Vitia elocutionis: Style and Medicine,” Papers on rhetoric XII 14 (2014) 145–155

“Vergil’s Empedoclean Universe,” LucInter 43 (2014) 67–90

“Empedocles in the Aetna?” LucInter 44 (2015) 77–91

“From Rhetoric to Philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, and Greco-Roman Exhortation" Papers on Rhetoric XIV (2018) 1–17

Book

The Rhetoric of Explanation in Lucretius’ De rerum natura, Mnemosyne Suppl.
294, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 2008

Promoting a New Kind of Education: Greek and Roman Philosophical Protreptic. International Studies in The History of Rhetoric 16. Leiden, E. J. Brill, 2022.

Review

M. Garani. Empedocles rediuiuus: Poetry and Analogy in Lucretius. New York/London: Routledge 2007. In JRS 100 (2010) 287

Book Chapter

“Polemics in Translation: Lucretius.” In Sh. Weisser and N. Thaler (eds.), Strategies of Polemics in Greek and Roman Philosophy, Leiden, Brill 2016, 150–165. 

“The Mirror of Nature” in Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to Early Modern Period, M. Gerolemou and L. Diamantopoulou (eds.), London, Bloomsbury, 2020, 119–126

“Sum ipsa Rhetorica: Rhetoric’s Exordium in Martianus Capella.” In G. Hays and A. Cain, eds. Omnium Magistra Virtutum, Studies in Honour of Danuta R. Shanzer, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin 15, Turnhout, Brepols, 2022, 33–47