Roel Konijnendijk

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.{{Cite web |date=26 January 2024 |title=About our staff |url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/profile_academic.php?search=1¶ms=%7B%7D&uun=rkonijne |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211201123158/https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/about-us/staff-profiles/profile_academic.php?search=1¶ms=%7B%7D&uun=rkonijne |archive-date=1 December 2021}}{{Cite web |title=Professor Hans van Wees |url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/professor-hans-van-wees |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328191246/https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/professor-hans-van-wees |archive-date=28 March 2023 |access-date=25 January 2024 |website=UCL {{!}} University College London|date=2 July 2018 }}{{Cite web |title=Dr Roel Konijnendijk {{!}} Lincoln College Oxford |url=https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-roel-konijnendijk |access-date=2024-06-16 |website=lincoln.ox.ac.uk}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Dr Roel Konijnendijk |url=https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-roel-konijnendijk |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.classics.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Roel Konijnendijk {{!}} New College |url=https://www.new.ox.ac.uk/roel-konijnendijk |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.new.ox.ac.uk}}{{Cite web |title=Lincoln College: Dr Roel Konijnendijk |url=https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-roel-konijnendijk}} He has contributed to a number of books on the topics of Classical Greek warfare,{{Cite web |last=Meadows |first=David |date=2021-11-10 |title=#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for November 10, 2021 |url=https://rogueclassicism.com/2021/11/10/thelxinoe-classics-news-for-november-10-2021/ |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=rogueclassicism |language=en}} the military reforms of Iphicrates,{{Cite web |title=Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2017.02.18 |url=http://www.bmcreview.org/2017/02/20170218.html |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=www.bmcreview.org}} Athenian democracy, and the military history of Sparta.{{Cite journal |last=Whately |first=Conor |date=August 8, 2020 |title=Commemorating War and War Dead: Ancient and Modern |url=https://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2020.08.08%20Whately%20on%20Giangiulio%20et%20al.pdf |journal=The Classical Journal}} He is also cited as an expert on the training and organization of Classical Greek and Persian armies.{{Cite book |last=Taylor |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFNPEAAAQBAJ&dq=konijnendijk&pg=PA502 |title=The Greek Hoplite Phalanx: The Iconic Heavy Infantry of the Classical Greek World |date=2022-01-31 |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |isbn=978-1-5267-8859-7 |pages=500–524 |language=en}}

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.{{Cite book |last1=Dowdall |first1=Alex |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewlDDwAAQBAJ&dq=roel+konijnendijk&pg=PA200 |title=Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy |last2=Horne |first2=John |date=2017-12-12 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-137-58532-5 |pages=200 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Różycki |first=Łukasz |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RLY0EAAAQBAJ&dq=roel+konijnendijk&pg=PA78 |title=Battlefield Emotions in Late Antiquity: A Study of Fear and Motivation in Roman Military Treatises |date=2021-06-22 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-46255-7 |pages=78 |language=en}}{{cite web|title=Visualising 'Western War'?|url=https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/visualising-war/2021/11/visualising-western-war/|website=University of St Andrews}} His research challenges the so-called "California School" of Greek military scholarship, arguing that its theories were largely based on outdated 19th-century models.{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oFNPEAAAQBAJ&dq=konijnendijk&pg=PA502 |title=The Greek Hoplite Phalanx: The Iconic Heavy Infantry of the Classical Greek World |date=2022-01-31 |publisher=Pen and Sword Military |isbn=978-1-5267-8859-7 |pages=490–494 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Rop |first=Jeffrey |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDGdDwAAQBAJ&q=konijnendijk&pg=PP1 |title=Greek Military Service in the Ancient Near East, 401–330 BCE |date=2019-06-20 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-49950-7 |pages=2, 18, 59, 60, 105, 246 |language=en}}

In 2017, Konijnendijk published Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History.{{Cite journal |title=Review of: Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History. Mnemosyne, supplements, 409 |url=https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2018/2018.11.48/ |journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review |issn=1055-7660}} The book was well received, with praise for Konijnendijk's re-assessment of Greek tactics.{{Cite journal |last=Vlassopoulos |first=Kostas |date=October 2018 |title=Greek History |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/greece-and-rome/article/abs/greek-history/DD79074B0DE98BE26FB81925E31F9430 |journal=Greece & Rome |language=en |volume=65 |issue=2 |pages=253–259 |doi=10.1017/S0017383518000190 |s2cid=232179261 |issn=0017-3835}}{{Cite journal |last=Foster |first=Edith |date=December 2, 2018 |title=BOOK REVIEW: Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History. By ROEL KONIJNENDIJK |url=https://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2018.12.02%20Foster%20on%20Konijnendijk_0.pdf |journal=The Classical Journal}}{{Cite journal |last=Nývlt |first=Pavel |date=2020-01-01 |title=(review) R. Konijnendijk: Classical Greek Tactics |url=https://www.academia.edu/45091249 |journal=Eirene: Studia Graeca et Latina}} With Cezary Kucewicz and Matthew Lloyd he edited Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx (2021), and also wrote three chapters of it.{{Cite book |url=https://brill.com/view/title/61308 |title=Brill's Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx |date=2021-11-29 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-50175-1 |language=en}}

He published his second monograph, Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History, in 2022.{{Cite web |title=New Academic Publications on Greek and Roman Warfare |url=https://www.bookandsword.com/2023/02/11/new-academic-publications-on-greek-and-roman-warfare |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=Book and Sword |language=en-CA}}

In September 2022, Konijnendijk was appointed Darby Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Lincoln College, Oxford.{{Cite web |title=Lincoln College Record 2023 |url=https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/asset/Lincoln-Record-2023-Nov-23-Digital.pdf |access-date=25 January 2024 |website=Lincoln College Oxford}}

Konijnendijk is a moderator and panelist for r/AskHistorians, a history forum on Reddit.{{Cite web |last=Devereaux |first=Bret |date=2021-01-15 |title=Miscellanea: Insurrections, Ancient and Modern (And Also Meet the Academicats) |url=https://acoup.blog/2021/01/15/miscellanea-insurrections-ancient-and-modern-and-also-meet-the-academicats/ |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=The Spartans at war - Myth vs reality |url=https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/spartans-war-myth-vs-reality/ |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=Ancient World Magazine |date=20 March 2019 |language=en}} He has also written for a number of popular history magazines, including Ancient Warfare, Ancient History Magazine, Ancient World Magazine, BadAncient, and Desperta Ferro.

In 2021 and 2022, he appeared in a series of videos for Insider, where he discussed the historical accuracy of well-known fantasy and historical drama films such as 300 and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.{{Cite web |last1=Thallon |first1=Carter |last2=Gandhi |first2=Siddharth |title=Ancient warfare expert rates 10 battle tactics in movies and TV shows |url=https://www.insider.com/ancient-warfare-expert-rates-10-battle-tactics-in-movies-tv-2021 |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=Insider |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last1=Thallon |first1=Carter |last2=Medroumi |first2=Sarah |title=Ancient-warfare expert rates 10 more battle tactics in movies and tv |url=https://www.insider.com/ancient-warfare-expert-rates-battle-tactics-movies-tv-realism-2021-10 |access-date=2022-03-13 |website=Insider |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last1=Thallon |first1=Carter |last2=Shardlow |first2=Ju |last3=Ibekwe |first3=David |title=Ancient-warfare historian rates 10 more battle scenes in movies and television|url=https://www.insider.com/ancient-warfare-historian-rates-more-battle-scenes-realism-movies-tv-2022-12 |access-date=2022-12-28 |website=Insider |language=en-US}}

• Between Miltiades and Moltke: Early German Studies in Greek Military History. Brill Publishers. 2022.
• "The Face of Battle at Plataiai", in The Battle of Plataia 479 BC. Phoibos. 2022.
• "The eager amateur: unit cohesion and the Athenian hoplite phalanx", in Unit Cohesion in the Ancient World. Routledge. 2022.
• (ed. and contributor with C. Kucewicz and M. Lloyd). A Companion to Greek Land Warfare Beyond the Phalanx. Brill Publishers. 2021.
• "Legitimization of war" in A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire. Wiley-Blackwell. 2021.
• "Democracy as protection against intra-communal violence in Classical Greece", in Violence and Democracy. British Academy, 2019.
• "Commemoration through fear: the Spartan reputation as a weapon of war", in Commemorating War and War Dead: Ancient and Modern. Steiner Verlag, 2019.
• Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History. Brill Publishers. 2018.
• "Iphikrates the innovator and the historiography of Lechaion", in Iphicrates, Peltasts and Lechaeum. Akanthina, 2014.

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