Nicholas Sekunda Explained

Nicholas Victor Sekunda (born 5 November 1953) is an archaeologist and historian. He is currently the Head of the Department of Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Gdańsk. His areas of research include war in antiquity, the Achaemenid Empire (First Persian Empire), the Hellenistic era after the conquests of Alexander the Great, the Hellenistic armies of the Greek successor states (diadochi), and the History of Crete.

Biography

Sekunda was born in 1953 in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom; his father was Polish.[1] He studied ancient history and archeology at the University of Manchester for his education, earning a BA in 1975.[2] Staying in Manchester, he earned his PhD in 1981, with his thesis on Cretan archers.[3] Sekunda published journal articles in the 1980s and 90s, although also worked in industry. He returned to academia in 1997 to work at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. His habilitation in 2002 was also with the Institute of Archeology; his resulting work was published in book form as Hellenistic Infantry Reforms of the 160's BC. He later gained a position as an assistant professor at Gdańsk University, and became a full professor in 2015.[4]

Sekunda has participated in various archaeological excavations in England, Poland, Iran, Greece, Syria and Jordan. He was a codirector of excavations, with Goran Sanev of the Archaeological Museum of Skopje, at in North Macedonia, a joint Polish-Macedonian project that began in 2009.[5] [6]

A Festschrift was published in 2023 for his 70th birthday, Καθηγητής: Studies in Ancient History, Warfare and Art Presented to Nick Sekunda on his Seventieth Birthday, featuring various essays and articles.[7]

Selected works

Sekunda's books aimed at a scholarly audience include:

Sekunda has also written many books intended for a popular audience, mostly with Osprey Publishing, a publisher of military history books.

He has also edited a variety of volumes of festschrifts, monograph collections, and conference proceedings.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sekunda . Nick . Greek Swords and Swordsmanship . https://web.archive.org/web/20061026110408/http://www.hoplites.co.uk/pdf/hoplite_swordsmanship.pdf . 2006-10-26 . usurped .
  2. Web site: Author Profile: Nicholas Sekunda . https://web.archive.org/web/20121017052640/http://www.ospreypublishing.com/authors/Nicholas_Sekunda/ . 2012-10-17 . unfit .
  3. Cretan Archers: Cretan Mercenaries Abroad c. 750-27 B.C. in Their Cretan and International Setting . 2 March 1981 . The University of Manchester (United Kingdom) . phd . Sekunda . N. V. .
  4. Web site: prof. dr hab. Nicholas Victor Sekunda . . Nauka Polska (Polish Science) . 21 February 2024 .
  5. Web site: Nicholas Sekunda . Archaeopress .
  6. Web site: Department of Mediterranean Archeology . https://web.archive.org/web/20160331172355/http://www.archeologia.his.ug.edu.pl/pl/instytut_archeologii_i_etnologii--zaklady_w_instytucie_archeologii--zaklad_archeologii_srodziemnomorskiej . 2016-03-31 . unfit . .
  7. Web site: Jubileusz 70-lecia prof. Nicholasa Sekundy . 70th birthday of Prof. Nicholas Sekunda . 13 November 2023 . 11 February 2024 . . pl.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Nicholas Sekunda".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.