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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Zincirli, Stela of Esarhaddon |
Zipoetes I of Bithynia
Zipoetes I (r.c.326-c.278 BCE): king of Bithynia.Zipoetes I succeeded his father Bas in about 326 BCE, during the reign of Alexander the Great, and managed to keep the Bithynians independent during the Diadoch Wars, fighting mainly against Lysimachus, the ruler…Zipoetes II of Bithynia
Zipoetes II: rebel king of Bithynia (r.278-276 BCE).King Zipoetes I of Bithynia died in 278, after a reign of almost half a century, in which he had been able to maintain his independence. seventy-six years old. His son Nicomedes I succeeded…
Zmajevac, Fittings of a scabbard |
Zopyrus
Zopyrus: a Persian nobleman who may have played a role during the capture of Babylon by the Persian king Darius I the Great in December 522 BCE. The story is told by the Greek researcher Herodotus and can be read…Zurmala
Zurmala: name of a Buddhist stupa near modern Termez in southern Uzbekistan. Zurmala Stupa Buddhism benefited from the fact that in the…
Zurmala stupa |
Zurmala stupa |
Zurmala stupa |
Zurmala stupa, Brickwork |
Zurmala stupa, Entrance |
Zwammerdam 2 = Mainz 3, model |