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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Corinth, Theater, Relief of an Amazonomachy |
Corinth, Tombstone of Gaius Valerius Valens of VIII Augusta |
Corinthian League
Corinthian League (338 BCE): confederation of Greek cities, meant by king Philip of Macedonia to control Greece, and used by Alexander the Great in his war against the Achaemenid Empire. …Gn. Marcius Coriolanus
Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus: Roman aristocrat and legendary commander of the armies of the Volsci, who invaded Central-Italy in the first quarter of the fifth century BCE.The early fifth century …Coriovallum (Heerlen)
Coriovallum, modern Heerlen in the Netherlands, was a village near a stopping-place on the road between Tongeren and Cologne. There were also roads to Trier and Xanten. …Cornelia Superia
Cornelia Superia: name of a Roman empress, married to Aemilianus, who briefly reigned in 253.Life Cornelia Superia July/August 253: Cornelia Supera was…
Cornelia Superia |
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum: the world's largest collection of Latin inscriptions. An inscription from Lepcis Magna Many Latin inscriptions have been published in…
Cortona, Etruscan boundary marker |
Cortona, Mirror with the Dioscuri |
The plain of Corupedium |
Corupedium (281 BCE)
Corupedium: site of the decisive battle in the war between Seleucus Nicator and Lysimachus (281 BCE). Seleucus I Nicator. Louvre, Paris…