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.
There are 9380 items in Jona Lendering:
Elephantine, Ostracon recording a census |
Elephantine, Temple of Chnum, Stele of Amenhotep II |
Eleusis
Eleusis (Greek Ἐλευσίς): town to the west of Athens, site of the sanctuary where the Mysteries of Demeter and Kore were celebrated. …
Eleusis, Decree on the Eleusinian First Fruits for Demeter and Kore |
Eleusis, Museum
Finds from the excavations of the ancient Greek sanctuary of Eleusis, where the Mysteries were celebrated. There are 10 items in Eleusis, Museum: …
Eleusis, Portrait of hierophant |
Eleusis, Relief of a drunk Heracles |
Eleusis, Temple F, Cecrops and Herse |
Eleusis, Tombstone of a warrior |
Elimination of manuscripts
Fifteenth-century Byzantine Gospel manuscript, showing the prologue of the Gospel of St John Ancient sources have been passed down to us…Elimination of sources
About many events from ancient history, we are informed by more than one source. If they are independent of each other, like the accounts of the Maccabean Revolt in the two books of Maccabees, we can rely upon them as…Elst
Elst: town in the Netherlands, site of a very big Roman temple. Elst, temple, model Modern Elst occupies the site of an…