Jan Z. van Rookhuijzen

Jan Z. van Rookhuijzen is a researcher and lecturer at the universities of Utrecht and Leiden (the Netherlands) and member of the National Research School of Classical Studies (OIKOS). His doctoral work examined the role of memory in Herodotus’ account of the Persian Wars, resulting in the monograph Herodotus and the Topography of Xerxes’ Invasion (2018, De Gruyter). He currently investigates the archaeology and reception history of the Acropolis of Athens. This project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), traces the role of narratives in current ideas of the Acropolis temples and has been featured in National Geographic.