From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jan 2 07:19:40 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA15434 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 07:19:39 -0800 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA07543 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 07:19:38 -0800 Received: from default (liv6-14.hamilton.idirect.com [216.154.55.14]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA82660 for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 10:19:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <4.3.0.23.20000102101122.00ac9a00@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.0.23 (Beta) Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 10:13:43 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: In the latest Explorator ... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed In the latest (edited for Classical content)... ]|[============================================]|[ ]|[ EXPLORATOR ]|[ Watching the Web for News of the Ancient World ]|[ Volume 2, Issue 73 -- January 2, 2000 ]|[============================================]|[ Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap (especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of 'publicatio' . ]|[============================================]|[ The British Press gave quite a bit of attention to recent research into "Midas' Tomb" and the evidence for a ritual meal which was held there. Here's the coverage from the Telegraph and the Times: http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=LbKLllKd&atmo=hhhhh hhe&pg=/et/99/12/30/ecnmid30.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=LbKLllKd&atmo=hhhhh hhe&pg=/et/99/12/30/ecnmid130.html http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/22/timfeasci03002.html?999 The Times reports on some revisionism in the role of Boadicea's hubby in her famous revolt: http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/29/timcrtcrt01003.html?999 Discovery News has an interesting piece suggesting fallout from Vesuvius might have contributed to Rome's 'fall": http://www.discovery.com/news/archive/news991217/brief3.html?ct=386f5c52 As might be expected, in the days around Christmas, there were plenty of articles on Christ-related matters. Here's the rundown: The evidence of the historical Jesus (from the Telegraph): http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=LbKLllKd&atmo=hhhhh hhe&pg=/et/99/12/25/tljesu25.html The Bethlehem Star thing (from the Times): http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/22/timfeasci03002.html?999 The Nativity (from the Times): http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/12/20/timfeafea01001.html?999 The Deseret News has a touristy piece on Ephesus, which actually is a nice little checklist of what's most important among the remains: http://deseretnews.com:80/dn/view/0,1249,145014964,00.html? The New York Times had an interesting piece on prehistoric fashion: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/quiz/articles/121499sci-archaeology -women.html ON THE NEWSTANDS Archaeology Magazine has a nice feature on the first millennium of Rome, along with the usual abstracts and news items, in its first issue of 2000: http://www.archaeology.org/0001/toc/toc.html REGULAR FEATURES CTCWeb's Words of the Week http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/myword.html Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html English translation (probably delayed): http://www.cbc4kids.ca/general/whats-new/latin-news/mainlatin.html EXPLORATOR IS ARCHIVED AT: http://www.onelist.com/archive/Explorator ]|[============================================]|[ EXPLORATOR is an irregular newletter (posted every two-three days) representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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