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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Scythopolis (Beth Shean)
Beth Shean (Hebrew בֵּית שְׁאָן): Bronze Age, Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine city in Galilee. In Greek, it was called Scythopolis (Σκυθόπολις).Bronze Age …Sea People
Sea People: name of several groups of marauders, mentioned in several Egyptian sources as enemies of king Merenptah (r.1213-1203 BCE) and king Ramesses III (r.1184-1152). Their appearance is related to the demise of the Mediterranean Bronze Age system in the…
Seal of Photius |
Seal with the god Bes |
Second Council of Constantinople (553)
Second Council of Constantinople: fifth of the seven Ecumenical Councils in which Christian doctrine was established (553). The Second Council of…Second Council of Nicaea (787)
Second Council of Nicaea: last of the seven Ecumenical Councils in which Christian doctrine was established (787). The Second Council of…Second Sophistic
Second Sophistic: Greek cultural movement of the second and third century CE. A sophist Ancient society was virtually illiterate. Only a few…Second Syrian War (260-253)
Syrian Wars: series of conflicts between the Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires in the third and second centuries BCE; at stake was an area called Coele Syria, which is more or less identical to modern Israel, the Palestine territories, Lebanon, and…Second Triumvirate
Triumvir or tresvir: member of a college of three members. The expression is mostly used to describe the First Triumvirate (60 BCE; Pompey the Great, Crassus, and Julius Caesar) and Second Triumvirate (43 BCE; Mark Antony, Lepidus, and Octavian). …
Section of a Roman road |
Segesta
Segesta (Greek Σέγεστα, ῎Εγεστα, Αἵγεστα): town in western Sicily, best known for its temple. Segesta, general view of the temple Archaeologists have established…Segesta, Temple
Segesta, general view of the temple Segesta's claim to fame is its unfinished Doric temple, which is one of Europe's best…