Hi r/AskHistorians! We are u/Iphikrates and /u/joshobrouwers, known offline as Dr. Roel Konijnendijk and Dr. Josho Brouwers. We're here to answer all your questions about the Trojan War, warfare in early Greece, and stack wiping noobs like a basileus.

Josho Brouwers wrote a PhD thesis on Early Greek warfare, in which the Homeric poems and Early Greek art were integral components. He has also taught courses on ancient Greek mythology, Homer, and the Trojan War, and wrote Henchmen of Ares: Warriors and Warfare in Early Greece (2013) as well as another book (in Dutch) on Greek mythology. He is editor-in-chief of Ancient World Magazine.

Roel Konijnendijk is a historian of Classical Greek warfare and historiography, and the author of Classical Greek Tactics: A Cultural History (2018). He is currently a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Leiden University, studying the long history of scholarship on Greek warfare.

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