Professor Tim Rood

Research Interests

My research interests are in Greek historiography and in the reception of ancient Greek history and culture in the modern world. I am currently Principal Investigator on a Leverhulme-funded project Anachronism and Antiquity.

Research Keywords

Greek historiography and its reception; ancient ideas about time and space.

Publications
Selected Publications:

‘Cultural history and Homeric scholarship in Thucydides’ Archaeology’, in N. Bruno (ed.), Archaeologies, Origins, Antiquities: Narrating Early Cultural History in Ancient Greece and Rome (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025), 21–54.

‘Alfred Zimmern’s early political thought I: Idealism, internationalism, and the study of Ancient History’, History of Political Thought 46.1 (2025), 133–70.

‘Alfred Zimmern’s early political thought II: Liberalism, Burke, and The Greek Commonwealth”, History of Political Thought 46.2 (2025), 361–90.

‘E.H. Carr and Alfred Zimmern: Utopia, Reality, and the Twenty Years’ Crisis’, International Theory, 1–30, published online 18 September 2025

(doi.org/10.1017/S1752971925100109).