From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Dec 10 06:51:46 2000 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA77770 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 06:51:45 -0800 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 GAA17774 for ; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 06:51:45 -0800 Received: from default.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-89.look.ca [216.154.52.217]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA31455; Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:46:22 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001210093609.01f59dd0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:41:48 -0500 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed What follows is a shortened version of Explorator, the premieremail newsletter devoted to matters archaeological and ancient, edited to the subject matter of this list; should you desire to subscribe to the full version (with archaeological news from around the world in various time periods), please send a blank email to: mailto:explorator-subscribe@egroups.com ============ Potentially big news, but I think the journalist types are reading a bit too much into it, is the discovery of a pair of entwined lovers, supposedly master and slave, along with a pile of gold in Pompeii: http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000579381554028&rtmo=wew0Kstb&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/00/12/9/wpomp09.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,48958,00.html Also on the Pompeii front, Canada's own National Post has an excellent feature on the erotic art of Pompeii: http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20001205/393447.html Bloomberg has a report on the auction of a 'year 5 of Israel' shekel: http://www.bloomberg.com/pgcgi.cgi?T=finer99_art.ht&s=AOi_0ABPuUmFyZSBJ The Observer brings a report on Boudicca's nastier side: http://observer.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,406152,00.html The Egyptian News service brings word of the discovery of a sunken Roman port: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html3/o041220c.htm The Houston Chronicle reports that a chunk of a Roman wall in Spain has collapsed due to heavy rains: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/world/767265 CLASSICISTS CORNER The Guardian has a somewhat interesting editorial about 'classism' which takes its start from Macauley's "Lays ...": http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/saturday_review/story/0,3605,408691,00.html An editorial in the Atlanta Constitution has plenty of Classical content as it compares the current US election difficulties to ancient Rome: http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/tuesday/opinion_a3c289d5a178719310a0.html Time Magazine has a nice little article on the benefits of Latin for English instruction: http://www.time.com/time/education/article/0,8599,90457,00.html FOLLOWUPS Roman luxury ships: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2000/12/03/stinwenws01011.html World's Oldest Love Song: http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20001206/hi_hu_song.html Cambyses' army (boy, they better find something ... they're certainly building the hype): http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/12/08/p7s2.htm http://209.19.141.102/news/2000/12/12082000/wirpersia_3408.asp AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is about Vincent Panella's first novel, which feature Julius Caesar's kidnapping by pirates: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa120500a.htm?terms=a1 Latin Guide Janet Burns has a nice little collection of Christmas-related songs in Latin: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa120400a.htm .