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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Figurine of Glykon |
Gobryas (conspirator)
Gobryas (Old Persian Gaubaruva): one of the seven conspirators who killed the Magian usurper Gaumâta and helped Darius the Great become king (September 522 BC). …Gobryas (general)
Gobryas (Old Persian Gaubaruva): name of one of the generals of king Cyrus the Great. Achaemenid nobleman Gobryas played an important role…Gobryas (satrap)
Gobryas (Old Persian Gaubaruva): satrap of Babylonia and the countries "across the river" (Euphrates). Achaemenid nobleman Gobryas was appointed in his important…Goedereede
Goedereede: location of a Roman port and fort on the shore of the North Sea.In 173, the Chauci, a tribe that lived in what is now called Groningen and Ostfriesland, and was well-known for its sea-faring qualities, attacked what is…Gogdara
Gogdara: town in a part of the Swat valley that is known for several important Buddhist monuments. Petroglyphs Near Odigram, Gogdara rock…
Gogdara, relief showing a saddhu |
A Buddhist relief |
Petroglyphs |
Golgoi, Synagogue inscription |
Golyamata Kosmatka
Golyamata Kosmatka: place in Bulgaria where Seuthes III, king of the Thracian Odryssae (r.331-c.300 BCE), was buried. Golyamata Kosmatka, mound With a…
Gomphoi, Relief of Odysseus and Amphicleia |