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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Viminacium, Woman's head |
Viminacium,Military baths |
Vindobona (Vienna)
Vindobona: Roman military base and town in Pannonia Superior (modern Wien, English Vienna). Part of the gate of the second-century Porta…
Vinkovci, Tombstone of Herennius |
M. Vipsanius Agrippa (1)
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (64/63-12 BCE): Roman politician, friend of the emperor Augustus. Bust of Agrippa Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa belonged to a provincial…Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro ("Virgil", 70 - 19 BCE): Roman poet, author of the Aeneid, the national poem of the Romans.Life Virgil…Visigoths
Goths: Germanic tribe that lived on the edge of the world known to the Romans, migrated to Pontic steppe and Dacia, and separated into two branches. In Late Antiquity, the @Visigoths (the subject of this page) migrated to the Iberian…Visurgis (Weser)
Visurgis: (Greek: Βίσουργις): river in northern Germany, modern Weser. The estuary of the Weser The river Weser, called Visurgis by the Romans…Aulus Vitellius
Aulus Vitellius (15-69): Roman senator and general, emperor in the year 69. Unfinished portrait of Vitellius We have three important, but extremely…Aulus Vitellius (2)
Unfinished portrait of Vitellius To understand Vitellius' rise to power, we must first discuss the crisis in the Roman empire in…Aulus Vitellius (3)
Vitellius Vitellius was at Dyon when he learned of the victory of his colonels Valens and Caenina, Otho's suicide and the…Aulus Vitellius (4)
Coin of Vitellius Only a few days after he had arrived in Rome, a messenger arrived from the east, saying that…