Tim Rood is a British classical scholar, specialising in Greek historiography and reception studies.
[1] Rood attended St Paul's School and then Oriel College, Oxford, where he gained a BA and DPhil.
He shared the Hellenic Foundation Prize for his DPhil thesis in 1995 and published a revised version three years later as Thucydides: Narrative and Explanation (Oxford University Press, 1998).
[2] During the 2007–2008 academic year, Rood was a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University,[3] where his work centred primarily on Xenophon's self-presentation, description of the army as a political unit, and imaginative geography.
[5] In March 2012, Rood was invited to deliver a lecture on the subject of "Thucydides and Homeric Scholarship" to the Department of Classics at the University of Virginia.