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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Orophernes I
Orophernes (c.320 BCE): brother Ariarathes I, the first ruler of independent Cappadocia.According to a very confused story by Diodorus of Sicily,note[Diodorus, Library of World History 31.19.] Orophernes was the brother of Ariarathes I, and fought for the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes…Orophernes II
Orophernes II (c.160 BCE): son of Ariararathes IV, king of Cappadocia.Relatives Son of Ariarathes IV and Antiochis (daughter of Antiochus III the Great and Laodice III) Main deeds In 163, Ariarathes V Philopator succeeded his father. The Seleucid ruler Demetrius I Soter proposed to…
Oropos, Aeolian-Ionic capital |
Osorkon I |
Osrhoenian Plain |
Osroes I
Osroes I: Arsacid king of the Parthian Empire (r.105?-129; co-ruler). Osroes I In c.105 CE, the Parthian king Pacorus II died. He was…
Osroes I |
Osroes II
Osroes II: Arsacid rebel king in the Parthian Empire (r.c.190). A Parthian In the first half of the second century, the Parthian Empire had…Ostia
Ostia: Roman city, next to the port of ancient Rome.History Ostia, Decumanus Situated at the mouth of the river Tiber, about thirty…
Ostia, Altar with Romulus and Remus |
Ostia, Baths of Neptune, Mosaic with Neptune |
Ostia, Baths of the Porta Marina |