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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Theodorias, West Church
Theodorias (modern Qasr Libya): Byzantine city in the Cyrenaica, (re)founded in 539 CE by the emperor Justinian. Two churches have been identified; the floor mosaics in the eastern basilica are among the greatest artistic treasures of Libya. …Theodosian Dynasty
Theodosian Dynasty: Roman imperial dynasty, ruling the empire from 378 until 457 Silver disk with Theodosius I and his sons Honorius…Theodosius I
Theodosius I the Great: emperor of the Roman world (378-395). Theodosius I (or II) Names: 11 January 347: Flavius Theodosius 19 January 379: Flavius…Theodosius II
Theodosius II: emperor of the East-Roman (Byzantine) empire (408-450). Theodosius II Names 10 April 401: Theodosius 10 January 402: Theodosius Augustus 28 July 450: natural…Theopompus
Theopompus of Chios (378-ca.320): Greek historian, one of the representatives of the "rhetorical history".According to a brief Byzantine biography, Theopompus, the son of Damasistratus, was born in the year that corresponds with our 378/377. This was the age in which…
The theorem of Thales |
Thera
Thera (Greek Θήρα): island in the Aegean Sea, also known as Santorini. Akrotiri, Wall painting of antelopes Thera is a volcanic island and…
Thera, Head of a Hellenistic statue |
Thera, Head of an archaic statue |
Thermopylae
Thermopylae (Greek: Θερμοπύλαι; "Hot Gates"): small pass in Greece, site of several battles, of which the Spartan defeat against the Persian invaders in 480 is the most famous. …Thermopylae (146 BCE)
Thermopylae (Θερμοπύλαι; "Hot Gates"): small pass in Greece, site of several battles. Thermopylae, view from electricity mast In 146 BCE, more or…Thermopylae (191 BCE)
Thermopylae (Θερμοπύλαι; "Hot Gates"): small pass in Greece, site of several battles. Thermopylae, view from electricity mast The Syrian War became inevitable…