About this episode

The episode explores the Thucydides Trap and ancient Greek warfare with historian Roel Konijnendijk.

What do actual historians think about the Thucydides Trap? Does our 'low T' discourse all just come back to the movie 300? How the did ancient Greeks fight and why does Homer still keep us coming back 2700 years later? To discuss we have on the excellent Roel Konijnendijk, professor at Oxford and author of Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History. Tony Stark and Justin McIntosh join. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Jordan Schneider

Guest: Roel Konijnendijk

Topics covered

• Thucydides Trap
• Ancient Greece
• Classical Warfare
• Cultural History
• Film Analysis
• Homer

Keywords

• Thucydides Trap
• Ancient Greece
• Homer
• Classical Greek Tactics
• 300
• warfare
• history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oxford

Books & works: Homer, Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History, 300

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