From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Feb 14 05:48:28 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.2+UW99.01/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id FAA32916 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:48:28 -0800 Received: from icarus.idirect.com (icarus.idirect.com [207.136.80.7]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id FAA11361 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:48:27 -0800 Received: from terminus.idirect.com (terminus.idirect.com [207.136.80.70]) by icarus.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA17637 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:48:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from idirect.com (ts3-1h-242.idirect.com [216.154.16.242]) by terminus.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA22888 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:48:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from default ([127.0.0.1]) by idirect.com with SMTP (Mailtraq/1.0.0.992) id IDRC8928C9F2 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:39:01 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990214083754.006e43e8@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: dmeadows@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:37:54 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: In Explorator 1.113 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Hops: 1 A couple items of interest from the latest edition of my newsletter: NPR's Sounds Like Science had an interview with Dr. David Durak, who adds his voice to the myriads who believe they have identified the plague of Athens (requires RealPlayer): I'm not quite sure what the name of the publication, but I have tracked it down to a February 9 date (thanks to "Average Joe" for the heads up); it suggests that Greek colonists exploited already-thriving native villages when they arrived in southern Italy in the 8th century B.C.: ]|[ David Meadows ]|[ http://web.idirect.com/~atrium ]|[ .