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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Sperlonga
Sperlonga: village on Italy's Tyrrhenian coast, famous for a cave with statues of Odysseus. The cave of Sperlonga. The basin in…
Sperlonga, Cave. The basin in front used to be covered too, but collapsed in 26. |
Sperlonga, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Museum with finds from the nearby cave of Tiberius, including the large Odysseus group. There are 1 items in Sperlonga, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: …Sphacteria (425 BCE)
Pylos/Sphacteria: site of a small but important battle during the Peloponnesian War (431-404), during which the Athenian general Demosthenes and the statesman Cleon captured 292 Spartan soldiers, including 120 elite Spartiates (425 BCE). …
Sphingion Hill, where the mythological Sphinx lived |
Sphinx
Sphinx (Greek: Σφίγξ): mythological creature with the body of a lion and a human head. A Phoenician sphinx from Carthage; there…
Sphinx of Osorkon I |
Spitamenes
Spitamenes (Old Persian: Spitâmaneh): last Persian leader who fought against Alexander the Great (329-328 BCE). Sogdian In the summer of 330, the…Split, Archaeological Museum
Museum with a small collection of Prehistoric and a larger collection of Graeco-Roman and Christian objects. Great lapidarium. There are 17 items in Split, Archaeological Museum: …
Split, Diocletian's palace, model |
Spolia
Spolia: modern name for architectural elements that are reused in a later construction. Reused drums in the Hexamilion Wall, Isthmia Spolia is…
Spoon to make balm |