From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jan 6 05:57:09 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id g06Dv8n92040 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:57:08 -0800 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Jan 06 05:57:04 2002 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW01.12) with ESMTP id g06Dv4TA013953 for ; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 05:57:04 -0800 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-05-111.look.ca [216.154.54.111]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA94981; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 08:57:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020106085448.02851020@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 08:55:17 -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 4.36 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.36 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 John Carr, Olivier Cabon, Alastair Millar, Chris Renaud, Mark Elliott, Maurice O'Sullivan, Carl Lawson, Bill Kennedy, Hernan Astudillo, Arthur Shippee, and Anthony Bulloch for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.). * * * A special hello to all the folks at the AIA/APA shindig this weekend! ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ There's plenty of coverage of one scholar's claim that a long-known artifact actually came from the throne of Midas: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/03/science/social/03MIDA.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-01/uop-uak122101.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_1742000/1742019.stm http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/681100.asp http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/01/020103074806.htm http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020103/od/midas_dc_1.html http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=113367 A brief item on the discovery of a Greco-Roman period town in the Sinai: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o030122i.htm A major Roman coin hoard has been found in Moray (Scotland), although the conclusions being drawn from it are somewhat suspect: http://www.news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=3152002 .... while the discovery of a dog burial in Silchester is causing more questions to be asked: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,626325,00.html A team of Greek archaeologists is headed to Afghanistan to see, well, what's left: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12943&m=A35&aa=1&eidos=S http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_487723.html?menu= http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=113509 http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/ap01-04-154838.asp?reg=ASIA See also: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F01%2Fwar301.xml ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ Tacitus on Germany (trans. Thomas Gordon): http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2995 Ovid, Metamorphoses (various translators including Dryden, Pope, et alia): http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/ovid/meta/index.htm The Sybilline Oracles (trans. Milton Terry): http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sib/index.htm ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ The New York antiquities dealer charged under an Egyptian law will have his trial proceed: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o010122j.htm cf.: http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=0111/etc/president ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ At N.S. Gill's Ancient History site: A. Schlaf, "Aqueducts of Rome Under Augustus": http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_schlaf1.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ LA Times has a review of Carsten Thiede, *The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity*: http://www.latimes.com/features/religion/la-000001122jan05.story?coll=la%2Dnews%2Dreligion ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ There's an AP story which seems to be just surfacing on the political side of ancient feasts: http://www.phillyburbs.com/couriertimes/news/news/0106feasts.htm More work on turning the area around the Acropolis into a pedestrian only area: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=113361 One I missed: Arabic News had a nice little rundown of the traditions associated with Jesus' family going to Egypt: http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011225/2001122537.html Related (sort of) to the previous: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F06%2Fwpil06.xml Classical content in the Euro changeover: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12943&m=A07&aa=2&eidos=S http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4327722,00.html .... and an article on vineyards in Greece: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=113232 The Director of the 2004 Cultural Olympics has resigned: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12943&m=A39&aa=4&eidos=S Dot Wordsworth in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-01-05&id=1461 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Albinia de la Mare: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=112479 ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Atlantis location: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0102_020103wiratlan.html Bamaiyan Buddhas: http://www.msnbc.com/news/680146.asp http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1230991578 Bronze Age Chronology: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4328515,00.html Pompeii Frescoes: http://www.starnews.com/article.php?pomperotica31.html ================================================================ Useful Addresses ================================================================ Past issues of Explorator are available on the web at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to: mailto:Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To send a 'heads up' to the editor: mailto:dmeadows@idirect.com ================================================================ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2002 David Meadows. 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