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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High Place of Worship
High Place of Worship: modern name for the ancient mountain sanctuaries in the Near East. Petra, High Place of Worship Although the…
Hildesheim Silver Treasure, Cybele |
Hildesheim Silver Treasure, Minerva |
Hillel
HillelHimera (480 BCE)
Battle of Himera (480 BCE): decisive Syracusan victory over the Carthaginians, which secured Syracuse's hegemonial position in the fifth century. View of…
Himera, View of the battlefield |
Himilco
Himilco: Carthaginian voyager, the first Mediterranean sailor known to have reached the northwestern shores of Europe. He wrote a story about his adventures, which is now lost. It is quoted, however, by two Roman authors, and we are therefore able…Hipparchus
Hipparchus of Nicaea (second century BCE): Greek astronomer, discoverer of the precession.The stellar catalogue made by Hipparchus of Nicaea contains observations that can be dated to 162-128 BCE, and this gives us an indication about the period in which he…Hippias
Hippias (Greek: Ἱππίας): tyrant of Athens (r.528/527-510 BCE). The temple of Zeus (finished in the Roman age); in the distance the Acropolis. Hippias…Hippo Regius
Hippo Regius: port in Numidia, best-known for its fifth-century bishop, Augustine, modern Annaba.Hippo Regius Basilica, said to be of Augustine Phoenician colony…
Hippo Regius, Baptistery |
Hippo Regius, Basilica, General view |