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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Megara, Funerary relief of an athlete |
Megara, Statue of a Roman emperor (Trajan or Hadrian) |
Megara, Statue of Dionysus |
Megarian Decree
Megarian Decree: name of the Athenian policy to bar merchants from Megara from the Athenian markets. Sparta went to war with Athens because it refused to revoke the decree. …Megiddo
Megiddo: important excavation in Galilee.Bronze Age Thuthmose III Situated at an important pass though the Carmel Mountains, Megiddo controlled the "Way of…Megiddo, museum
Museum with the finds of one of the most important excavations in the Levant. Finds from Prehistory until the Roman age. There are 2 items in Megiddo, museum: …Megiste
Megiste: island in ancient Greece, close to Lycia. The isle of Megiste In Antiquity, sailors arriving from the east knew they were…
Megiste, Bellerophon sarcophagus. |
Map of the excavated part of Arnhem-Meinerswijk |
The site of Arnhem-Meinerswijk |
Melitene (Arslantepe)
Melitene (also known as Milit, Malida, and Melidu): ancient town with important remains from the Chalcolithic and Iron Age, modern Arslantepe.Prehistory Chalcolithic Palace Occupied since…
Melitene, Lion Gate, lion |