From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Apr 23 05:08:05 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA46934 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 05:08:04 -0700 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id FAA30104 for ; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 05:08:04 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-141.look.ca [216.154.51.141]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA22487; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 08:03:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.1.0.20000423080616.00ac8920@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 08:09:18 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: In the latest Explorator Cc: rome-arch@egroups.com, roman_history_books@onelist.com, anCIEN-L@LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From issue 2.88: The big news of the week appears to be one scholar's suggestion that the bones found in "Philip's Tomb" aren't those of Alexander the Great's father, but of his half (wit) brother Philip Arrhideus. Here's plenty of coverage ... that from the Independent and Discover.com is the most balanced: http://www.eurekalert.org:80/releases/aaas-sfr041300.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Europe/2000-04/alexander210400.shtml http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000421/history_philip.html http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/articles/042000-philipii.shtml http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/042100/alexander.sml http://library.northernlight.com/HB20000420510000011.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc http://www.accessatlanta.com:80/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/friday/news_83ffbed19555d0cb00ad.html OLD WORLD NEWS Discovery.com reports on the discovery of a large Egyptian temple complex for the crocodile god, appropriately in Crocodilopolis: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000418/history_crocodopolis.html Cyprus News reports on what's been found recently at Idalion: http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cypio/2000/00-04-17.cypio.html#04 ABCNews picks up an AP report on the discovery of a Greco-Roman fortress in Egypt's western desert: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20000420_784.html The Times (London) has a brief piece suggesting that pot decoration in ancient Greece had the same effect as magazine covers do today in terms of creating societal standards of beauty: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/20/timnwsnws03036.html As might be expected this time of year, we have a feature on scholars disagreeing over the exact route Jesus walked when he was crucified: http://www.ohio.com/bj/news/docs/016989.htm Also somewhat timely is the Christian Science Monitor's report on ancient Roman censuses: http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/04/19/text/p1s3.html The Times (London) has a report on the meeting of the Classical Association, as well as an editorial on why the study of Classics remains important: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/17/timopnedt01002.html http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/19/timnwsnws01015.html Also in the Times (and sounding like a tale from Herodotus), researchers have suggested that the babbling of babies is a clue to the earliest language development (becos anyone?): http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/21/timfgnusa01002.html REVIEWS The Times also has a review of Margaret Reynolds *The Sappho Companion*: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/04/20/timbooboo03018.html ON THE NEWSSTANDS Archaeology Odyssey has a new issue on the web, which includes feature articles on Hermann Hilprecht's work, Vitruvius, and some news items on the Villa of Agrippina, the Elgin Marble saga, among other things: http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html EXHIBITS A brief notice in the International Herald Tribune informs that the Capitoline Museum has (finally) reopened (thanks to Judy Underwood for the heads up): http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/WED/IN/travel2.2.html A new source I stumbled across called the Art Newspaper has a couple of items that seem to fit in this category: one a report on Italy's Etruscan collections and another on the return of a head of Nefertari (both on the same page): http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/archaeology/archeology.asp The same source also reports on the Pushkin Museum's putting all those famous Trojan artifacts on permanent display (pardon the awkward sentence .... this is a big issue!): http://www.allemandi.com/TAN/news/article.asp?idart=1415 THE POLITICS OF ARCHAEOLOGY The Telegraph reports on efforts to prevent Britain's oldest amphitheatre from being buried beneath a courthouse (watch the wrap): http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=kNYb3Jop&atmo=hhhhhhhe&pg=/et/00/4/18/namph18.html OBITUARY Leighton Reynolds (watch the wrap) http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=r2Fbm3XX&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/4/8/ebreyn.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 a weekly newsletter (but posted every two-three days when there's a lot going on) representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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