Jona Lendering
Jona Lendering read history at Leiden University (MA 1993), specialized in Mediterranean culture at the Amsterdam Free University (MA 1996), and worked at excavations in Holland (Riethoven) and Greece (Halos). After teaching historical theory and ancient history at the Free University for several years, he was one of the founders of a school for history teaching, Livius Onderwijs. Born in Amsterdam, it has now spread to auxiliary locations in Bussum, Dronten, Gouda, Haarlem, Hoorn, Schagen, Zaanstad, and Zoetermeer. As of 2013, Livius Onderwijs has eight teachers, about 500-600 students a year, and offers tours to countries like Italy, Turkey, Iran, and Lebanon. The field trips help to etch into the students' minds some of what they've learned at the school.
Because history is for a large part telling a story, something you do best in your own language, Lendering prefers to publish in Dutch journals. However, he has contributed to the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and Ancient Warfare, while he is the founder of Ancient History Magazine. He is also the publisher and editor of the on-line publication of the Babylonian Chronicles of the Hellenistic Period, a set of important cuneiform sources for the history of the Seleucid and Parthian Near East, transcribed, translated and commented on by Bert van der Spek of the Free University Amsterdam and Irving Finkel of the British Museum. A publication as book is in preparation.
Lendering has written several books and maintains a blog in Dutch. He is the author of several books, including Edge of Empire and Consensus and Crises. For the Livius website, which has received several awards, he collaborates closely with Bill Thayer of LacusCurtius. Lendering is also the webmaster of two daily blogs, the MainzerBeobachter.com and Grondslagen.net.
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Chicago, Oriental Institute
The Museum of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago has a large collection of finds from excavation in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Syria, and Turkey, Among the most famous objects are the Megiddo Ivories, bronzes from Luristan, a…Childeric
Childeric: governor of Gallia Secunda, king, and founder of the Merovingian state in northern Gaul. Replica of Childeric's ring Childeric, son of a Frankish leader…
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Chiliarch
Chiliarch: official at the royal court of Achaemenid Persia.Chiliarchos means "leader of a thousand men" and is the Greek way to describe an official the Achaemenid court who was in charge of the daily, official affairs of the king. The…Chimaera
Chimaera (Χίμαιρα. "she-goat"): a monster from the ancient Greek mythology, killed by Bellerophon. Greek plate with a picture of the Chimaera.…