From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Sep 10 12:49:20 2000 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+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA77434 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:49:19 -0700 Received: from phobos.idirect.com (phobos.idirect.com [207.136.80.181]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id MAA07574 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:49:18 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-129.look.ca [216.154.53.1]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA25328; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:47:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.0.20000910155827.00b4eb70@postoffice.idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@postoffice.idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:58:38 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu, ancIEN-L@LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com, Latin@vlists.net From: David Meadows Subject: In the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Items of interest from my newsletter: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gratias vobis ago for the heads up to: rmhowe, Bill Kennedy, Andrew Schoenhofer and Michael Ruggeri (as always, with hopes that I didn't leave anyone out!). OLD WORLD NEWS Xinhua via Northern Light reports on the threat to the sculptures on Mount Nemrut in Turkey: http://library.northernlight.com/FB20000906340000173.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc The Telegraph has a nice article on life in a Roman military camp near Hadrian's wall (watch the wrap): http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=V6rrwqSK&atmo=hhhhhhhe&pg=/et/00/9/4/nfort04.html Coming in a close second for 'big news' is the much-reported-on story of one paleoecologist's suggestion that a catastrophic event (i.e. a comet) ushered in the 'Dark Ages' in 540 A.D.: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/08/science/comet-middle.html http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/catastrophe000908.html http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/09/09/timnwsnws03001.html http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/09/09/timnwsnws01002.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/457183.asp WEBSITES The Persian Gallery at the Oriental Institute has reopened and the associated webpage has some interesting stuff to look at: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/GALLERY/PERSIAN/New_Persian_Gallery.html The Stoa has an interesting update ... a subsection called Metis by Bruce Hartzler which has Quicktime views of a number of important Greek archaeological sites. Definitely worth a look: http://www.stoa.org/metis/ AT ABOUT COM Archaeological guide Kris Hurst's latest is a review of William Isbell's *Mummies and Mortuary Monuments*: http://archaeology.about.com/library/read/blisbell.htm Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on the Olympic games: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa090600a.htm Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on the Roman 'labour day' (a guest column by William Harris): http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa090300a.htm?terms=a1 CLASSICISTS' CORNER The Irish Times reveals that "Gladiator" has spurred interest in ancient history: http://www.ireland.com:80/newspaper/ireland/2000/0907/hom12.htm The University Wire has an interesting piece on the 'online notes' phenomenon: http://news.excite.com:80/news/uw/000908/tech-199 Back in August, a British politician-type criticized universities for 'joke-majors' (like golf course management); the BBC had a sort of online chat thing and there were some interesting comments made about classics and archaeology in the process (you'll have to scroll through it a bit): http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_879000/879953.stm FOLLOWUPS Zeugma (someone's suggesting moving the whole thing!): http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/09/09062000/turkishcity_3007.asp Thracian city: http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/09/09012000/bulgariacity_2998.asp .