From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Sep 23 05:50:33 2001 Received: from mxu103.u.washington.edu (mxu103.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f8NCoVN47512 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 05:50:31 -0700 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by mxu103.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f8NCoVv10614 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 05:50:31 -0700 Received: FROM ares.idirect.com BY mxu3.u.washington.edu ; Sun Sep 23 05:50:30 2001 -0700 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-51.look.ca [216.154.52.179]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA18658; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:49:51 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010923084937.0258fc70@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 08:50:16 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com, PreModernWorldHistory@egroups.com, ancientmed@egroups.com, latinteach@vlists.net, latin@vlists.net From: David Meadows Subject: In Explorator 4.21 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.21 classical world edition ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ What might be the world's oldest village has been discovered in a dried out region of the Sea of Galilee: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stifgnmid03001.html The Egyptian State Information Service has a brief item on the start of another survey in a different part of Alexandria's harbour: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o170921l.htm Those of us who get asked about all the differences between B.C. and B.C.E. will appreciate a mistake between B.C. and B.E.: http://dailynews.netscape.com/mynsnews/story.tmpl?table=n&cat=50900&id=200109200724000262854 In the wake of the tragic events of September 11, there is at least one article circulating on targeting of famous buildings in other periods: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010920/ts/attack_landmarks_dc_2.html http://news.excite.com/news/r/010920/09/news-attack-landmarks-dc ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ The New Yorker has a brief item on the Cleopatra exhibition at the British Museum, with links to follow up on: http://www.newyorker.com/ON-LINE_ONLY/ARCHIVES/?010507on_onlineonly02 Jewish Magazine has an article on tombs in Jerusalem: http://www.jewishmag.com/47mag/jerusalemtombs/jerusalemtombs.htm Il Sussidiario has an archaeological magazine supplement (it seems) and the most recent version has a good article (in Italian) summarizing the various sites that have been proposed for Atlantis and giving some idea of actual research that has been done: http://www.sussidiario.it/archeologia/magazine/republik/atlantide.shtml This seems to be the appropriate location for these more 'newsy' items: also on the Atlantis front, New Scientist has a report on a sea level study which might shed light on the origins of the tale: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991320 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1554000/1554594.stm ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the Twelve Tables: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa091101a.htm Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is a review of Wm. Harris *An Intelligent Person's Guide to the Latin Language*: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa090801b.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ The Times has a review of C. Woodward *In Ruins*: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,70-2001323579,00.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ The Duke Chronicle has an item on what's been done at Duke since an external review of the Classical Studies department last year: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010920/university-152 The auction of the DAI has been "blocked": http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=100082 .... and reparations are going to be sought by another village: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=100376 Here's how the exiled king of Afghanistan spends his days: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4261706,00.html Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-09-22&id=1122 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Jason at Dimini: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0109/17/world/world22.html ================================================================ Useful Addresses ================================================================ Past issues of Explorator are available on the web at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to: mailto:Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To send a 'heads up' to the editor: mailto:dmeadows@idirect.com Many articles which don't expire will eventually show up with related items in the Atrium's Media Archive, which should debut before the end of August at: http://atrium-media.com/mediaarchive.html ================================================================ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2001 David Meadows. 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