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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Macedonian cavalry attacking an Indian elephant |
The hidden valley behind the Hydaspes |
Hydraotes (Ravi)
Hydraotes (Old Indian Iravati, modern Ravi): river in the Punjab, where Alexander the Great attacked a group of refugees.The river Ravi, the ancient Hydraotes or Iravati, south of modern Kamalia. This part of the Punjab belonged to the Mallians (Malava),…Hydria
Hydria
Hygeia on a bronze plaque |
Hyperbolus
HyperbolusHyrcania
Hyrcana (Old Persian Varkâna, "country of wolves"; Akkadian Urqananu): part of the ancient Achaemenid empire, on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, now called Gorgan. …Hystaspes (1)
Hystaspes (OP. Vištâspa): name of several noble Persians and Bactrians. One of them is mentioned in the Avesta, the holy book of Zoroastrianism, the Persian religion that was founded by the legendary prophet Zarathustra. Vištâspa, the son of Aurvat-aspa, was the…Hystaspes (2)
Hystaspes (OP. Vištâspa): name of several noble Persians and Bactrians. One of them is the father of king Darius I the Great, who is mentioned in several Persian and Greek texts. …
Iapodic headgear |
Icon of Saint Barbara |
Iconium, Lydian vase |