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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Lycia
Lycia: the mountainous southwest of Turkey. The Lycian coast The landscape of southwestern Turkey, ancient Lycia, is dominated by the fact that…Lycia (2)
Map of Lycia The inhabitants of Lycia called themselves Trmmili, a name almost never used by other nations, who invariably called…Lycia (3)
Map of Lycia After the mid-fifth century, we find the Lycians in the Athenian alliance, the Delian League, which was directed…Lycia (4)
Map of Lycia Independence was never recovered and Lycian culture was now disappearing. The latest known Lycian inscription was written in…Lycia (5)
Map of Lycia Yet, Lycia was now part of the Roman sphere of influence and suffered from the First Mithridatic War…
The Lycian coast |
Lycian portrait of Omphale |
Lycian tombs
Lycian tombs: a type of sarcophagus-shaped tomb, only known from Lycia. Lycian tomb in Myra In Antiquity, the bodies of the dead…Lydia
Lydia: Iron Age kingdom in western Turkey. Its capital was Sardes. In Antiquity, this country was well known for its gold carrying river Pactolus; the wealth of the last Lydian king Croesus, who had been the first to mint gold,…Lydia (satrapy)
Lydia: satrapy in the Achaemenid Empire. Its capital was Sardes. A Lydian. Relief from the East Stairs of the Apadana, Persepolis After…
Lydian stater with head of a lion |
Lykos (Nahr al-Kalb)
Lykos or Nahr al-Kalb: river, northeast of modern Beirut, best known for a large series of rock inscriptions, both ancient and modern. Nahr al-Kalb The Lykos…