Dr. Roel Konijnendijk
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1,157 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 15 Mar
Dr. Roel Konijnendijk’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You can see what he doesn't like.
And in that sense, he feels closer to you than somebody who stands very aloof of his material, like a Thucydides, who is just like kind of laying it out as it is.
And you have to kind of accept his authority.
Xenophon feels more personable.
And sometimes he will say that or imply it and other times he will leave it sort of quietly.
He gives a lot of detail about the defense of the oligarchy of the 30 in Athens after the Peloponnesian War.
We'll get to that.
We'll get to that.
Okay.
Well, I won't say anything about it now.
Spoilers.
He's very conspicuously able to give a very detailed account.
But he wasn't there.
But he wasn't there.
No one could possibly.
You can't prove anything.
They're very helpful.
I mean, both because any source can tell you something more, even just about the kind of traditions that used to survive.
Plutarch has access to a lot of sources that we don't have anymore.
And he quotes them and he talks about them, compares them.
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