From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun May 13 05:47:43 2001 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4DClf0114276 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 05:47:41 -0700 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4DClfF21057 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 05:47:41 -0700 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-02-114.look.ca [216.154.52.50]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA70942; Sun, 13 May 2001 08:45:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010513084501.025393d0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:47:27 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu, ancien-l@listserv.louisville.edu, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com, PreModernWorldHistory@egroups.com, From: David Meadows Subject: In the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed What follows is an abbreviated version of Explorator, the free weekly email newsletter devoted to matters archaeological and ancient, tailored to the focus of this list. If you would like to subscribe to the full version, with archaeological news from around the world and in various time periods, send a blank email message to: mailto:explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ]|[=================================================================]|[ Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and others who fill that role out there! Thanks to Alastair Millar, Bill Kennedy, Simon Price, and Curtis B. Edmundson for the headses upses (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ]|[=================================================================]|[ OLD WORLD NEWS The same source reports (with at least one glaring error) on the discovery of some apparently-Roman era artifacts near Damietta: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o100521.htm A big statue of Hercules/Herakles has been found in Izmit: http://news.24.com/News24/World/Middle_East/0,1113,2-10-35_1023610,00.html http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/05/12/turkey.ancient.statue.ap/index.html http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0542_BC_Turkey-AncientStatue&&news&newsflash-international Athens News has a somewhat unfocused piece on Jaynie Anderson's talk about Cleopatra: http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12909&m=A34&aa=1&eidos=S The Surrey Advertiser has a piece on a Romano-Celtic temple at Wanborough: http://www.surreyad.co.uk/news/11-05-01/news07.html First it was part of the Aurelian Wall ... now heavy rains have contributed to the collapse of part of Nero's Domus Aurea: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010507/od/nero_dc_1.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4182282,00.html http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,487338,00.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-126036,00.html An article in the Scotsman suggests ancient Scotland was not a cultural backwater: http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=70795&keyword=the ]|[=================================================================]|[ ON THE NEWSSTANDS Ancient Egypt Magazine is now included in our scan ... the most recent issue has a feature on Cleopatra: http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/cleopatra06.htm ]|[=================================================================]|[ WEBSITES The Sphakia Survey Project has recently done a major upgrade of its excellent website ... worth a look: http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/ ]|[=================================================================]|[ EXHIBITIONS Discovering Archaeology has a review of the "Syria: Land of Civilizations" exhibition: http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/050801-syrianartifacts.htm ]|[=================================================================]|[ CLASSICIST'S CORNER Folks might be interested to read about efforts to restore the idea of an Olympic truce: http://athensnews.dolnet.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12909&m=A07&aa=2&eidos=S http://news.24.com/News24/Sport/More_Sport/0,1231,2-9-32_1021611,00.html The Independent has an interesting piece on the apparent upsurge in popularity of history (including some classical content): http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=71890 Not specifically classics of the sort we think of (but maybe it is), but they're being used as punishment (rehabilitation) for a couple of young offender types: http://www.nandotimes.com/healthscience/story/0,1080,500559752-500800244-504319336-0,00.html The Black World Today has reprinted a piece from the Classical Bulletin on Martin Luther King's Classical education: http://tbwt.yellowbrix.com/pages/tbwt/Story.nsp?story_id=20637083&ID=tbwt&scategory=African+American+News ]|[=================================================================]|[ At ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest in on Cadmus: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa050801a.htm Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is a guest editorial by William Harris on Caesar and Bush on bankruptcy: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa050601a.htm ]|[=================================================================]|[ FOLLOWUPS New Alexandria Library: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=kC1xJYop&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/5/3/wbib03.html ]|[================================================================]|[ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2001 David Meadows .