From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Nov 4 06:08:01 2001 Received: from mailscan5.cac.washington.edu (mailscan5.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id fA4E80n63836 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 06:08:00 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan5.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Nov 04 06:07:55 2001 -0800 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with ESMTP id fA4E7r232514 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 06:07:53 -0800 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-7.look.ca [216.154.51.7]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA65200; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 09:10:34 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011104090849.021541c0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 09:09:21 -0500 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 4.27 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.27 classical world edition ================================================================ 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 publication. ================================================================ Thanks to Daren Zehnle, Rick Pettigrew, Mark Elliott, Trevor Watkins, Jorn Barger, Terrence Lockyer, Sally Winchester, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) .... this thing just gets bigger every week! ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Some Roman-era tombs have been found near Siwa: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o291021a.htm China Daily has a tantalizingly brief report on the discovery of a 'relievo' depicting the Star of David and dating to the Song or Yuan dynasty: http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/cn/2001-10-29/41131.html The New York Times has a good JNW piece on the effect current events has had on various digs etc.: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/social/30ARCH.html .... and in a similar vein (all different ... was there a meeting or something?): http://www.smh.com.au/news/0111/03/world/world5.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1635000/1635963.stm http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/303/science/Land_of_the_lost+.shtml http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=190&xlc=481018 http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,61-2001381234,00.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The Bible and Interpretation site has an article by Jerry Reed called "Excavating Jesus": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/excavating_Jesus.htm ================================================================ NEWLY-ARRIVED ETEXTS ================================================================ Walter Pater, *Greek Studies: A Series of Essays* is a 1910 or so MacMillan text with a collection of essays on matters mythical and art historical: http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts/Texts/Pater/Greek_Studies/index_gs.htm Idem, *Marius the Epicurean* ... two volumes: http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts/Texts/Pater/Marius_1/index_marius_1.htm http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts/Texts/Pater/Marius_2/index_marius_2.htm Idem, *The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry* has a miscellany of things, but of interest to us are two essays on Winckelmann: http://www.ajdrake.com/etexts/Texts/Pater/Renaissance/index_ren.htm The Christian Classics Ethereal Library has recently added the "Life of Flavius Josephus": http://www.ccel.org/j/josephus/works/autobiog.htm ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst's latest is on the "Archaeology of Death": http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aabyb102801a.htm Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a guest-written piece on Republican Roman Construction: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_geary_rrc1.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ AthensNews has a review of *Aegean Olympic Victors in Antiquity*: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12934&m=A35&aa=2&eidos=S The Independent has a review of Barry Cunliffe, *The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek*: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=102142 ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ The Field Museum in Chicago is the latest to host the "Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth" exhibit. They've got a nice little online thing at (which wasn't working this a.m., but might be later today): http://www.fmnh.org/cleopatra/cleoexhib.html For a review of same (with a globalization thread holding it together): http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/446rcmga.asp The University of Chicago Chronicle has a reviewish sort of thing on the Oriental Institute's "Angle of Repose: Four American Photographers in Egypt" Exhibit: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/011101/egypt.shtml Everything is apparently happening in Chicago ... here's a review of an exhibit on ancient food as evidenced from traces on cooking utensils: http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-mead02.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ A review of a production of the Antigone now touring Britain: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=102684 An item from the Independent with classcon which argues that sex is not a sign of decadence, but civilization: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=102711 An interesting item in the New York Times "How Islam Won, and Lost, the Lead in Science": http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/30/science/social/30ISLA.html Folks might like this touristy piece on the Tajik city of Khodand: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/from_our_own_correspondent/newsid_1620000/1620301.stm Plenty of classcon in an article on the demise of the drachma: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1627000/1627442.stm A Somerset village has an every-fifty-years ritual of slaying a dragon ... perhaps there's some comparative material here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1628000/1628958.stm Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-11-03&id=1264 Dot Wordsworth similiter: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-11-03&id=1262 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ John Gould (not Gold as in one headline): http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,60-2001380195,00.html http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=102106 ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Elgin Marbles (yet another turn): http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1621000/1621388.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1632000/1632906.stm Temple Booty funded Colosseum: http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.colosseum04nov04.story?coll=bal%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines ================================================================ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2001 David Meadows. 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