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Dr. Roel Konijnendijk is the Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. He holds a BA and MPhil from Leiden University (Netherlands) and a PhD from University College London (UCL). His research focuses on Greek warfare, its socio-political dimensions, and interactions between Greek and Persian military systems. Key interests include historiography, democracy, and the history of scholarship on ancient warfare.
Teaching responsibilities include courses on Greek and Roman history, Athenian democracy, Spartan traditions, and the Achaemenid Persians. He contributes to the CAAH Greek Core class on aristocracy and democracy (550–450 BC). Recent publications include The Economics of War in Ancient Greece (2025) and Between Miltiades and Moltke (2023), exploring German historiography and Greek military thought.
His work bridges military history with cultural and intellectual analysis, examining how modern scholarship shapes perceptions of ancient warfare. He has held academic roles at institutions like Birkbeck, Warwick, and Edinburgh, emphasizing interdisciplinary approaches to classical studies.
