Ben Truska

Ben Truska is a graduate of the University of Missouri with bachelor's degrees in Classics-Humanities and History. He is also a graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece earning a Master’s of Greek and Near Eastern Archaeology from the Bronze Age Palaces to the Hellenistic Kingdoms. His master's thesis “The Socioeconomic Effects on Arms and Armor: From the Archaic Period to Philip II of Macedonia” (2023) focuses on how arms and armor changed throughout a 500-year period of Greek history, and how it shaped the perceptions of the individual warriors. He has co-written for Archaeopress' publishing "Leveraging Reenactment and Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) for the Understanding of Ancient Combat" in Moving the Past: Embodied Research on Discontinued Movement Cultures (2026). He has also been published by Ancient Warfare Magazine "Two Coins in the Hand - Economics and War in Archaic Greece" (2026). He is also the lecturer for "Recreating the Battlefield: Experimental Archaeology in Action," (2025) where he lectures about how reenactment can be used as experimental archaeology for bridging the gap of what is known and unknown in Greek history. He is the host of Historia Hellenike on YouTube where he makes videos talking about random facts about Ancient Greece while dispelling modern myths. He is also a U.S. Army Reserves veteran and is currently working as an aircraft mechanic while using his degrees for historical reenactment and experimental archaeology. He is a member of The Greek Phalanx, which is the Greek hoplite reenactor group in North America.