
Owen Rees is the founder and lead editor of Bad Ancient. He holds a PhD in Ancient History from the Manchester Metropolitan University (2018). His specific research interest lies in the transition of soldiers from civilian life to the battlefield and back again. He also studies the treatment of the ancient Greek war dead.
Owen works as both a lecturer and as a freelance writer, regularly contributing to publications specializing in ancient history. He originally created #badancient as a way collect examples of ancient history being misused, or appropriated, in the modern day as a way of showing his students the importance of ancient history in everyday life. He has published a variety of books on the topic of ancient Greek warfare and history, and is also finishing a draft of his first trade book TheFar Edges of the Known World: A New Perspective On Our Ancient Civilizations, which will be published in the UK by Bloomsbury in 2024 and by Norton in the US.