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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Sam'al (Zincirli)
Sam'al: one of the Iron Age kingdoms in northern Syria, modern Zincirli in Turkey.History One of the excavations At the beginning of the…Samaria
Samaria (Hebrew Šomron): residence of the kings of ancient Israel, and provincial capital in the Assyrian, Babylonian, Achaemenid, and Seleucid empires. The Jews of Jerusalem did not accept the religious ideas of the people of Samaria, but acknowledged that the…
Samaria ivories |
Samaria, Achaemenid coin with iconographic parallels from Persepolis |
Samaritans
Samaritans: group of monotheists worshipping YHWH on Mount Gerizim. They are related to but not identical with the inhabitants of ancient Samaria.Samaritanism resembles Judaism, but there are several differences. Samaritans think that the temple of YHWH should not be on Mount…Samarkand, Archaeological Museum of Afrosiab
Situated on the edge of the Afrosiab excavations in Samarkand (ancient Maracanda), this museum has archaeological finds documenting Prehistory, the Sogdian age, the Hellenistic period, the Kushans, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism, and (on the second floor) the Middle Ages. The room…Sambra (Sambre)
Sambra: river in Gallia Belgica, modern Sambre. The Sambre near Thuin The river Sambre has its sources near modern Nouvion-en-Thiéreache in northern…
The Sambre near Thuin |
Samos
Samos (Greek: Σάμος): Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, opposite Cape Mycale and Miletus.The island Samos, seen from Mycale 43 km long…
Samos, Head of a kouros |
Samos, Head of a kouros |
Samos, Heracles as archer |