Classical Studies PhD Student
Damon is a PhD candidate in the department of Classical Studies at Boston University and the 2025-26 Thomas Day Seymour fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. His dissertation investigates Homer’s influence on Xenophon’s corpus, with focus on the Anabasis, Memorabilia and Symposium.
Damon received his BA in political science from Middlebury College and a Master of Arts in Liberal Arts from the St. John’s College Graduate Institute (Annapolis). He has taught classes at BU as the instructor of record for Latin 2, Latin 3, and CL101: World of Greece.
Dissertation (In Progress):
“Xenophon’s Odysseus: Homer’s Fourth-Century Nostos.”
First Reader: Stephanie Nelson
Recent Conference Papers:
- “Nearly Virtuous: Odysseus in Xenophon’s Memorabilia,” Society for Classical Studies Annual Conference, January 2026.
- “Xenophon’s Socratic Odysseus,” International Society for Socratic Studies, October 2025
- “Focalized History: Philosophic and Tragic Accounts in Xenophon’s Anabasis and Ctesias’ Persica,” International Xenophon Society Conference, November 2024.
- “Eternal Nostos: Zarathustra’s Odyssey,” University of Virginia Graduate Student Colloquium, March 2024.
- “The Punishment of Thersites,” Classical Association of New England, April 2022.
- “Vergil’s Victores: A Study of the Epithet Victor in the Georgics,” Society for Classical Studies Annual Conference, January 2022.