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Livius
is a website on ancient history. It is essentially a one-man endeavor
that
has been maintained since 1996 by Jona Lendering
from Amsterdam, Holland. He read history at Leiden University (where he
graduated in 1993), specialized in Mediterranean culture at the
Amsterdam
Free University (until 1996), and worked at excavations in Holland and
Greece. After teaching methodology and theory at the Free University,
he
worked for some time as an archivist for the Dutch government. He is
currently
a freelance teacher
(ancient and Dutch history; more...) and likes to write reviews of Dutch novels (more...).
Jona Lendering is the author of several books, all
in Dutch.
Reviews can
be found here
(many in
Dutch). Some other bits and pieces can be found here.
- Oorlogsmist.
Veldslagen en propaganda uit de Oudheid 2006 Amsterdam (Fog of War. Ancient Battles and
Propaganda). A book on war and the
representation of war (more...;
chapter).
- Polderdenken.
De wortels van de Nederlandse
overlegcultuur
2005 Amsterdam (The
roots of the Dutch consensus culture). A little book about
medieval
peat reclamation, polders, dikes, windmills and the political,
economical
and social consequences of the Dutch war against the sea (reviews).
- Alexander
de Grote. De ondergang van het Perzische
Rijk 2004 Amsterdam (Alexander
the Great. The Demise of the Persian Empire). It
contains several
recently discovered Babylonian texts and takes into account
modern
sociological theories about the pristine state, and ideas about
transcultural
leadership that have been developed at modern business schools. A part
of it has been translated into English and can be found here.
(reviews).
- Stad
in marmer. Gids voor het antieke Rome
aan de hand van tijdgenoten 2002 Amsterdam (The
marble city. Literary travel guide for ancient Rome). A book
on daily
life in ancient Rome, hailed as "the best book on Rome in the Dutch
language"
by the NRC Handelsblad. An English review can be
found here
and a translated part can be found here
(other reviews).
- Interim-ABC,
2002 The Hague.
A skeptical inventory of management jargon, a coproduction with Klaas
de
Roo and Paul Mentzel (reviews).
- Archeologie
van de futurologie,
2000 The Hague (Archaeology of the futurology).
A brief history
of futurology, including evaluations of the most important
futurological
methods.
- De
randen van de aarde. De Romeinen tussen
Schelde en Eems,
2000 Amsterdam (The
edges of the earth. The Romans in the Low Countries). The
history of
the Roman occupation of Belgium and the Netherlands, including a
collection
of hundred translated Greek and Latin texts. (A translated chapter can
be found here;
other parts were used in this
article; reviews.)
- Een
interim-manager in het Romeinse Rijk. Plinius
in Bithynië, 1998 The
Hague (An interim-manager
in the Roman empire.
Pliny in Bithynia). A brief introduction to Roman history and
government,
culminating in a description of Pliny
the Younger's governorship
of Bithynia-Pontus (reviews).
The next projects will be a collection of sources and a book on the
rise of Early Christianity and Rabbinical Judaism. Other projects: a
history of the Seleucids,
a dictionary of blunders by classicists, archaeologists, and historians
(with Marcel Hulpas), or a
history of the Roman legions, not unlike the webpages
already devoted to this subject. Other plans are a book on the
influence
of Islam on Europe, the Mediterranean culture under the Severan
dynasty,
a history of pre-Islamic Iran, a book on Babylonia, and a book on the
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