From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun May 20 07:32:56 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4KEWt0113868 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 07:32:55 -0700 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f4KEWsK13200 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 07:32:55 -0700 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-158.look.ca [216.154.51.158]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA79008; Sun, 20 May 2001 10:32:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010520102120.00a98280@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 10:22:52 -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 (4.3) 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@egroups.com ------------------------------------------------------ Thanks to Sally Winchester, Michael Ruggieri, Bill Kennedy, Alastair Miller, Mark Eliott, Albert Lusnia, 'mauros', Matt Connors, and Tim Spalding for the headses upses (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.): OLD WORLD NEWS There's been much buzz about this one: archaeologists may have found the remains of ancient Iolcus ... Jason's stomping grounds: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/mpa/2001/01-05-15.mpa.html#07 http://www.cthesis.com/local/0301/l_342_165.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-202515,00.html We'll be hearing more about this one: "ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe that a girl whose skeleton was found buried at St Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight may have been murdered during the Roman era." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003100565149417&rtmo=rQFhmbXX&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/5/13/nbul13.html#go14 The Guardian has a feature on what a career in archaeology might involve: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4188105,00.html ON THE NEWSSTANDS I seem to have missed these if they've been up before, but Discover Archaeology has a feature on the Scythians: http://www.discoveringarchaeology.com/0599toc/5feature1-scythian.shtml Egypt Revealed has Zahi Hawass' Giza Update (although I'm not sure there is anything new): http://www.egyptrevealed.com/news_from_giza.htm .... and a feature on Egypt's oldest monastery: http://www.egyptrevealed.com/051801-oldestmonastery.htm ON THE WEB The Bible and Interpretation site has a new feature on the archaeological remains at Bethsaida: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/bethsaida.htm Here's a nice little portal-type site which came across my desktop this week ... it has links to museums in Australia and elsewhere which have antiquities collections: http://www.antiquity.com.au/ I meant to include this one last weekend and forgot ... Idle surfing brought me to a very interesting French site with web broadcasts ... the program is called Cinema d'histoire and it is the sort of thing that we often see as 'history of ________ on film". For fans of the ancient world, there actually is some good stuff, as far as I've been able to preview it. You need realplayer, and should go to: http://www.canalweb.net/vers/cinehistv.html Click on 'cliquez ici' and a program will start on the 18th century portrayal of something that didn't interest me. If you click on 'emissions', however, you will get a list of shows upcoming (presumably on tv) which you can watch now. The one I watched was a 30 minute thing devoted to la destruction de Pompeii and included extracts from various films (mostly The Last Days of Pompeii); Catherine Salles was the guest who discussed matters of historicity and history ... good stuff (there's background stuff, bibliography, filmography etc.). I note the 'Cycle Antiquite' also has programs devoted to the Iliad, Alexander the Great, and Spartacus ... worth a look if you can understand French and have a decent connection. Another time consumer (well, it is a long weekend up here in Canada) ... the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Hellas has a nice multimedia thing on ancient Greek theatres. Access it from the MFAH main page and click on the 'read more' on the right hand side: http://www.cthesis.com/ AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the house of Thebes: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa051501a.htm Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on that chestnut dolor lorem ipsum: http://latin.about.com/homework/latin/library/weekly/aa111599.htm CLASSICIST'S CORNER The Guardian has a feature on the versatility of a Classics degree: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4188149,00.html Also in the Guardian is a review of something called Secrets of the Dead which, well, has to be read: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4186782,00.html .... ditto a review of 'Gladiator Girl': http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=72424 We don't often hear of Greek 'faires': http://www.appeal-democrat.com/051901/051901Greek.shtml FOLLOWUPS Ancient Alexandria: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o170521b.htm Cleopatra's beauty: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html4/o140521i.htm http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010514/2001051447.html Marathon Olympic site: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4185952,00.html http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12910&m=A11&aa=2&eidos=S http://www.smh.com.au/news/0105/15/world/world4.html .