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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The Via Egnatia in Philippi |
Philippi, Weight with the portrait of Empress Eudoxia I |
Philippopolis (Plovdiv)
Philippopolis (Greek Φιλιππούπολις): city in Thrace, founded by king Philip of Macedonia; important town in the Roman province of Thrace; border town in the Byzantine Empire.Origins …Philostratus
Lucius Flavius Philostratus (c.170-c.247): one of the leading sophists or orators of his day, spent some years at the Roman imperial court, author of a Lives of the Sophists and an intriguing Life of Apollonius of Tyana.Philostrati …Philotas
Philotas: Macedonian cavalry officer, executed by Alexander the Great in October 330.Alexander became king of Macedonia in October 336, but he was not the only candidate. One of the rivals, a man named Attalus, was put to death by Parmenion,…Phocaea
Phocaea (Φώκαια): Greek city in Ionia, modern Foça in western Turkey. Death mask Phocaea was the most northerly of the Ionian settlements…
Phocaea, Death mask |
Phocaea, Wreath |
Phocas
Phocas: emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) empire (r. 602-610). Phocas Dates: 547: birth 23 November 602: recognized as emperor 5 October 610: natural death Successor of:…
Phoenician glass pendant |
Phoenician ivory of Astarte |
Phoenician-Etruscan dish |