From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jan 28 06:48:11 2001 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id GAA72936 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:48:09 -0800 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA15927 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:48:09 -0800 Received: from hk9k801.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-145.look.ca [216.154.53.17]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01989; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:47:57 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010128094705.00a11bc0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:48:15 -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 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 ------------------------------------------------------ OLD WORLD NEWS Business Week has a chapter excerpt from W. Michael Blumenthal *The Invisible Wall* which has some interesting, albeit fleeting, bits of ancient history: http://www.businessweek.com/chapter/blumenthal.htm The Guardian has an item on how Hippocrates still has stuff to teach us: http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4121846,00.html The BBC reports on the increasing rate of discovery of coin hoards: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1133000/1133910.stm And as long as we're talking about coin hoards, here's one I missed a few weeks ago (despite having been given a heads up) from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1109000/1109308.stm One we'll likely hear more about: a Eurekalert press release (and several spawned articles) tells of one prof's theory on the connection between collapse of societies and climate change: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/umass-ccp012501.html http://www.smh.com.au/news/0101/28/world/world4.html http://ens.lycos.com/ens/jan2001/2001L-01-26-09.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000140326706927&rtmo=lvSbnzAt&atmo=HHHHHHHL&pg=/et/01/1/26/wclim26.html CLASSICIST'S CORNER National Defense magazine has a sidebar piece which cites classical precedents for psyops: http://nationaldefense.ndia.org/article.cfm?Id=427 (full article at http://nationaldefense.ndia.org/article.cfm?Id=425) ABCNewsguy John Stossel makes passing mention that there were classical (and even more ancient) precedents for making New Year's resolutions (is this true??): http://abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/ABCNEWSSpecials/001229_stossel_feature.html One I missed last week: the Washington Post had a feature on presidential inaugurations with a sidebar on the origin of the word: http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7659-2001Jan17.html Folks might be interested in some tragic productions in Ireland: http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2001/0126/reg3.htm FOLLOWUPS Homer accuracy: http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/01/27/loc_discovery_settles.html SAGAS Elgin Marbles: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2001/01-01-25.ana.html#22 OBITUARY Oliver Gurney: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/27/world/27GURN.html AT ABOUT.COM Latin Guide Janet Burns has a piece on Latin haiku: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa011601a.htm AND ANOTHER THING ... Indiana Jones has been voted the top movie hero of all time: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/newsid_1138000/1138584.stm http://library.northernlight.com/HC20010126010000024.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc .