R Van Wijk
Biographic Data
| ID | 2772533 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Van Wijk |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Wijk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN WIJK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9840-1122 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plataia
Plataia was a small polis in southern Boiotia. Despite never disowning its Boiotian heritage, it had a fraught relationship with its Boiotian neighbors on account of its refusal to join the koinon in the late sixth century. Instead, it allied with the Athenians. On its lands the battle of Plataia was fought (479 bce ), transforming it into an important lieu de memoire that was exploited and used by external powers such as the Spartans and the Mac…
Athenian Confederacy, Second
The Second Athenian Confederacy, or the Second Athenian League brought together a large swath of Greek poleis in an alliance or symmachia under the leadership of Athens. In essence, it aimed to revive the Athenian Empire, but semantically had to do things differently. Therefore, terms like “the Athenians and their allies” are used by and in ancient sources. Another such maneuver is that the right to autonomia of every ally is guaranteed in the fa…
Thrasyboulos, Athenian democrat
Thrasyboulos, the son of Lykos, came from the Athenian deme Steiria. Born sometime between 450 and 445 bce , he was killed at Aspendos in 389. He was leader of an exiled group of Athenian democrats who returned to overthrow the Tyranny of the Thirty after receiving refuge in Thebes.
This Must be the Place
In this article I aim to clarify how specific cult sites emerged in southern Boiotia by employing a holistic approach, combining the phenomenological investigations favoured by the recent Spatial and Sensorial Turn with a functionalist understanding of these locations. Understanding how the natural environment provided the impetus for the deliberations on divine presences at these sites forms the first step; a second layer of analysis considers t…
Take me to the River
This article explores how the Asopos-river in Southern Boiotia constituted a conduit of people, ideas and goods before evolving into a sacred landscape that brought together the numerous communities along its banks. The river provided a natural anchor in the landscape. Through it people would travel in the direction of Euboia, Corinth and Eleusis, or north-eastern Attica. The first part of the article collects testimonies on the Asopos-corridor a…
Athens and Boiotia
Were Athenians and Boiotians natural enemies in the Archaic and Classical period? The scholarly consensus is yes. Roy van Wijk, however, re-evaluates this commonly held assumption and shows that, far from perpetually hostile, their relationship was distinctive and complex. Moving between diplomatic normative behaviour, commemorative practice and the lived experience in the borderlands, he offers a close analysis of literary sources, combined with…
Improving rowing performance by adjusting oar blade size and angle
The principal aim of the work presented here is to investigate and demonstrate that a forward tilted rowing blade would result in a more efficient and effective motion of the blade through the water that would result in a higher boat speed when an equal input power is provided. A 1:5 scaled rowing boat is used to determine the performance of rowing blades with different sizes and blade angles. This is used to validate the results of a previous st…
Contested Hegemonies
Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Em…
Athens, Thebes and Plataia and the end of the sixth century BCE
One of the key events in the relations between the Athenians and Thebans was the Plataian decision to align themselves with the Athenians at the end of the sixth century BCE. This decision shook up the contemporary political landscape and proved to be a source of hostility between the two neighbouring polities throughout the fifth and fourth centuries. The orthodox view holds that the original alignment took place in 519 during the Peisistratid t…
Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Em…
Improving rowing performance by adjusting oar blade size and angle
The principal aim of the work presented here is to investigate and demonstrate that a forward tilted rowing blade would result in a more efficient and effective motion of the blade through the water that would result in a higher boat speed when an equal input power is provided. A 1:5 scaled rowing boat is used to determine the performance of rowing blades with different sizes and blade angles. This is used to validate the results of a previous st…
Athens, Thebes and Plataia and the end of the sixth century BCE
One of the key events in the relations between the Athenians and Thebans was the Plataian decision to align themselves with the Athenians at the end of the sixth century BCE. This decision shook up the contemporary political landscape and proved to be a source of hostility between the two neighbouring polities throughout the fifth and fourth centuries. The orthodox view holds that the original alignment took place in 519 during the Peisistratid t…
Contested Hegemonies
Empires of the Sea
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly 'non-western' perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Em…
Improving rowing performance by adjusting oar blade size and angle
The principal aim of the work presented here is to investigate and demonstrate that a forward tilted rowing blade would result in a more efficient and effective motion of the blade through the water that would result in a higher boat speed when an equal input power is provided. A 1:5 scaled rowing boat is used to determine the performance of rowing blades with different sizes and blade angles. This is used to validate the results of a previous st…
This Must be the Place
In this article I aim to clarify how specific cult sites emerged in southern Boiotia by employing a holistic approach, combining the phenomenological investigations favoured by the recent Spatial and Sensorial Turn with a functionalist understanding of these locations. Understanding how the natural environment provided the impetus for the deliberations on divine presences at these sites forms the first step; a second layer of analysis considers t…
Take me to the River
This article explores how the Asopos-river in Southern Boiotia constituted a conduit of people, ideas and goods before evolving into a sacred landscape that brought together the numerous communities along its banks. The river provided a natural anchor in the landscape. Through it people would travel in the direction of Euboia, Corinth and Eleusis, or north-eastern Attica. The first part of the article collects testimonies on the Asopos-corridor a…
Athens and Boiotia
Were Athenians and Boiotians natural enemies in the Archaic and Classical period? The scholarly consensus is yes. Roy van Wijk, however, re-evaluates this commonly held assumption and shows that, far from perpetually hostile, their relationship was distinctive and complex. Moving between diplomatic normative behaviour, commemorative practice and the lived experience in the borderlands, he offers a close analysis of literary sources, combined with…
Plataia
Plataia was a small polis in southern Boiotia. Despite never disowning its Boiotian heritage, it had a fraught relationship with its Boiotian neighbors on account of its refusal to join the koinon in the late sixth century. Instead, it allied with the Athenians. On its lands the battle of Plataia was fought (479 bce ), transforming it into an important lieu de memoire that was exploited and used by external powers such as the Spartans and the Mac…
Athenian Confederacy, Second
The Second Athenian Confederacy, or the Second Athenian League brought together a large swath of Greek poleis in an alliance or symmachia under the leadership of Athens. In essence, it aimed to revive the Athenian Empire, but semantically had to do things differently. Therefore, terms like “the Athenians and their allies” are used by and in ancient sources. Another such maneuver is that the right to autonomia of every ally is guaranteed in the fa…
Thrasyboulos, Athenian democrat
Thrasyboulos, the son of Lykos, came from the Athenian deme Steiria. Born sometime between 450 and 445 bce , he was killed at Aspendos in 389. He was leader of an exiled group of Athenian democrats who returned to overthrow the Tyranny of the Thirty after receiving refuge in Thebes.
History (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (2 works)