Visiting Lecturer of Classics
315 Reed Hall
(603)646-3221
Christopher.van.den.berg@Dartmouth.EDU
A UC Berkeley undergraduate, Chris received a PhD from Yale in Classics and Comparative Literature. His dissertation focused on Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus. He held the NEH/APA fellowship to the TLL, and has studied in Mexico, France, and Germany. His teaching interests cover ancient and modern literatures, including German neo-Classicism (Hölderlin, Goethe, Schiller inter alios). His research centers on the connection of prose and poetic aesthetics with larger social discourses in the Late Republic and Early Empire. He has contributed articles to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (in Latin) and the Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik (in German). A forthcoming article on malignitas reflects his interest in aesthetic and emotional vocabulary. Another examines the pulvinar in Roman material culture and emperor worship. He is currently writing a book entitled “The Aesthetics of Empire and The Rhetorical Tradition.” A second book project on Hölderlin’s reception of Pindar and Latin elegy is in the works, and a study of Cicero’s influence on Horace.
