Roel Konijnendijk | |
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Nationality | Dutch |
Academic background | |
Education | BA and MPhil, Leiden University PhD, University College London |
Thesis | Ideals and Pragmatism in Greek Military Thought, 490–338 BC (2015) |
Doctoral advisor | Hans van Wees |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics,Ancient History |
Notable works | Classical Greek Tactics |
Roel Konijnendijk is a Dutch historian working in the United Kingdom. He is known for his research on Classical Greek warfare and military thought,and has authored the book Classical Greek Tactics .
Konijnendijk enrolled at Leiden University in 2004 where he received a BA and MPhil in history. He has also studied in Taiwan and worked at the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. In 2015 he graduated from University College London with a PhD,where he was supervised by Hans van Wees. [1] [2] [3]
Konijnendijk was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Historical Research and Leiden. He has taught Greek History at Birkbeck,University of Warwick,University of Edinburgh,New College,Oxford,and Lincoln College,Oxford. [4] [5] [6] He has contributed to a number of books on the topics of Classical Greek warfare, [7] the military reforms of Iphicrates, [8] Athenian democracy,and the military history of Sparta. [9] He is also cited as an expert on the training and organization of Classical Greek and Persian armies. [10]
He is a proponent of the theory that Greek warfare was both more brutal than some modern scholars have described,and that it was driven by practicality rather than ritual. [11] [12] [13] His research challenges the so-called "California School" of Greek military scholarship,arguing that its theories were largely based on outdated 19th-century models. [14] [15]
In 2017,Konijnendijk published Classical Greek Tactics:A Cultural History . [16] The book was well received,with praise for Konijnendijk's re-assessment of Greek tactics. [17] [18] [19] With Cezary Kucewicz and Matthew Lloyd he edited Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx (2021),and also wrote three chapters of it. [20]
He published his second monograph,Between Miltiades and Moltke:Early German Studies in Greek Military History,in 2022. [21]
In September 2022,Konijnendijk was appointed Darby Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Lincoln College,Oxford. [22]
Konijnendijk is a moderator and panelist for r/AskHistorians,a history forum on Reddit. [23] [24] He has also written for a number of popular history magazines,including Ancient Warfare ,Ancient History Magazine,Ancient World Magazine,BadAncient,and Desperta Ferro. [1]
Since 2021,he has appeared in a series of videos for Insider,where he discusses the historical accuracy of well-known fantasy and historical drama films such as 300 and The Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers . [25] [26] [27]