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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A Jar with the Name of King Xerxes
A Jar with the Name of King Xerxes Jar, given by king Xerxes to queen Artemisia In the British Museum in London,…A sarcophagus from Antioch
Antioch sarcophagus: a "Sidemara sarcophagus" now in the Museum of Antioch. The sarcophagus The sarcophagus shown on this page can be found…Aalen
Aalen: town in Germany, known for a Roman limes fort. Model of the limes fort at Aalen Aalen was the largest cavalry…Aalen, Limesmuseum
Nice museum, dedicated to the Roman army and the German limes. There are 17 items in Aalen, Limesmuseum: …
Aalen, Praetorium |
Aardenburg
Aardenburg: coastal fortress in Germania Inferior. The ancient name may have been Rodanum. Tower of the Aardenburg fort In 173 CE, the…
Aardenburg, Ancient stones, reused in the Medieval church |
Aardenburg, Archeologisch museum
Often, the best ideas are so simple that you wonder why no one else invented them before. Last Sunday, I visited the small city of Aardenburg, close to the Dutch-Belgian border, to see the remains of the Roman fort. It…
Aardenburg, Figurine of Bacchus |
Aardenburg, Figurine of Minerva |
Aardenburg, Fort, Tower |
Aardenburg, head of Bacchus |