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Ancient historian (Greece, Persia, war, history-writing). Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford. Moderator at r/AskHistorians. Ditch guy on YouTube.

Roel Konijnendijk

I hiked Besseggen 🇳🇴 in 2006 and got the tshirt

A fun chat about many things to do with ancient warfare and its modern reception. Reconstructing ancient history requires imagination as well as research, and I tried to articulate the difference between "it is possible, but..." and "it is possible, therefore..." approaches to that fact

Coming up this week... Athens has lost the Peloponnesian War, and democracy is the greatest casualty. @roelkonijn.bsky.social guides us through what happened when a different system of government was installed, one that murdered its citizens and plundered their wealth... Tune in on Wednesday!

New episode klaxon! What happened in Athens once it lost the long, costly Peloponnesian War? The victors in Sparta weren't too fond of Athenian democracy, so it simply had to go... our guest expert this week, @roelkonijn.bsky.social walks us through an ancient regime change and its aftermath...

New interview is out, all about the greatest Greek historian ever: Xenophon (yeah, I said it!). Come for the history, stay to find out what happens when two historians with ADHD try to stick to the question being asked. Also got in a quick reference to @roelkonijn.bsky.social and 'Xenophon is Sad'.

Pro tip for when you want to type this surname but all you have is a TV remote: "ditch guy" works

Had a lot of fun talking in detail about the brutal oligachy of the Thirty that briefly ruled Athens (404-3 BCE) and its spectacular downfall. Sometimes democracy wins

I was invited to speak at the Open House event of the new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities @ox.ac.uk this weekend. A full house to watch me wave my hands a lot and talk about silly ideas in the study of Greek warfare

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See how he tries to coax the garbage engine to be a better researcher while also commanding it to be a prick. They are desperate for a way to learn things without becoming a better person

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Roel Konijnendijk

Ancient History 101 Podcast

Roel Konijnendijk

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Second: @badancient.bsky.social gives us the dramatic biography of Xenophon, with a cameo from Super Secy Alcibiades... www.ancienthistory101.org/p/xenophon-a...

Today on AOH, Dr. @roelkonijn.bsky.social, the Darby Fellow in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford, discusses psychological warfare and imperial brutality in antiquity,Greek ambivalence about war’s glory and horror, & myth-busts Sparta as less uniquely militarist than popularly imagined.

404 BCE: Squads in Athens are tearing residents from their homes. Some are thrown out of the city. Others are murdered in cold blood. What happens next? Listen to the full episode with Roel Konijnendijk to find out... www.ancienthistory101.org/p/the-thirty...

Question I've never seen on here and I keep forgetting to ask: What the oldest tshirt you own?