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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Pythagoras
Pythagoras of Samos (c.570-c.495): almost legendary Greek philosopher. Pythagoras Like his older contemporary Thales of Miletus, Pythagoras of Samos was looking for…
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Pythia
Pythia: title of the priestess of Apollo in Delphi. House of the Pythia The pythia was the oracular priestess in the great…Pythodoris
Pythodoris (30/29 BCE - 38 CE): queen of Pontus (r.8 BCE - 38 CE).Born in Smyrna in 30 or 29 BCE, Pythodoris was a daughter of a man named Pythodorus of Tralles and a woman named Antonia, a daughter of…Pyxis
Pyxis (Greek: πύξις): Roman and modern name for a small, cylindrical box containing jewels. A pyxis from Trier A pyxis is typically a…Q
Q is the name used by scholars to describe a lost source on Jesus' teachings.It can be reconstructed from the gospels of Matthew and Luke, which are based on two earlier sources: the gospel of Mark and Q. Stated differently,…
The relation between Q and the gospel of Mark (up) as sources of Matthew and Luke (down). |
Qalah-e Dokhtar
Ardašir Khureh ("fame of Ardašir): Sasanian city in Persis, modern Firuzabad. Except for the city, there is a castle (discussed on this page), a palace, a large relief celebrating Ardašir's victories, and a small relief commemorating his investiture. Qalah-e Dokhtar …Qanat
Qanat: type of underground irrigation canal between an aquifer on the piedmont to a garden on an arid plain. The word is Arabic, but the system is best known from Iran. …
Cross-section of a qanat |
The outlet of a qanat |
View inside a qanat |