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(v1.60q) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <10714841330.20021103102232@idirect.com> To: classics@u.washington.edu CC: BRITARCH@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, ane@listhost.uchicago.edu, Latin@vlists.net, latinteach@vlists.net Subject: Explorator 5.27 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ================================================================ explorator 5.27 November 3, 2002 ================================================================ 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. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Richard Heli, Steve Rankin, Bill Kennedy, Maurice O'Sullivan, Tom Elliott, 'alesmonetos', Hanna Orr, C.J. Feehan, W. Richard Frahm, and Barbara Barrett for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.). ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Well, if the James Ossuary was the big news last week, I guess the big news this week is that it was cracked en route to exhibition in Toronto (I suspect I know which road the damage was cause by) ... more 'followups' in the Followups section below: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1036180400857_40/?hub=Canada http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAFDHZK08D.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_701877.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/2393209.stm http://www.msnbc.com/news/829505.asp http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/01/ossuary_021101 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20021101/sc_nm/life_canada_ossuary_dc http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2137300,00.html I'm sure we'll hear more on this one ... new research suggests that race is a more important factor than environment when it comes to cranial shapes: http://www.msnbc.com/news/828866.asp A brief item on the largest Neolithic site ever found in Germany (article in German): http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,2044,OID1242054,00.html A new museum is planned for Egypt's Philae Island archaeological site: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o311022d.htm Dam construction in Iraq threatens the site of Ashur: http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1035872948655 Masada is now a UNESCO heritage site: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2135355,00.html Al-Ahram has a nice piece on the mining site of Mons Claudianus: http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/610/trav2.htm A hitherto unknown temple erected by Hadrian to commemorate his beloved Antinous has been discovered in excavations at the villa: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-464071,00.html A metal detector guy has joined the ranks of archaeologists by "stumbling" on a Roman burial near London: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/2391369.stm One I missed: last weekend the New York Times had a nice piece on the roots of modern Buddhism: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/national/26BELI.html The oldest section of China's Great Wall has been identified: http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200210/31/eng20021031_106023.shtml Cave art in northern India was recently saved from a deconstruction crew: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-464073,00.html A major ancient cemetery has been found somewhat near Bangkok: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=1646256 The graves of many of those who took part in Nelson's 'Battle of the Nile' have been discovered: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,820361,00.html Not sure how to classify this one, but the New York Times has an interesting piece on the collection of Islamic Art (and other items) housed in Doris Duke's 'Shangri-La' estate: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/travel/HAWAII.html more at: http://www.honoluluacademy.org/shangri/islamic2.htm Also in the unsure classification category is an account of a Ramadan-timed miniseries based on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/26/international/middleeast/26CAIR.html .... as is a piece on the alchemist Nicholas Flamel, who figures in the Harry Potter series: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/28/international/europe/28PARI.html .... as is a piece on the accessibility to scholars of the Glaser collection of ancient Arabic manuscripts at the Austrian National Library: http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=19963 .... and a piece on DNA evidence being used to identify Jack the Ripper: http://www.msnbc.com/news/827603.asp .... and evidence supposedly exonerating the claim that the British poisoned Napoleon: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2371187.stm An interview/press release thing with Ken Feder should be of interest: http://www.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/spew4th.pl?ascribeid=20021031.140157&time=15 ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Pre-Incan remains have been found beneath the waters of Lake Titicaca (haven't we heard of this before?): http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20021031/od_nm/peru_titicaca_dc http://reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1662009 A Civil War site has been saved from development: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/28/national/28FARM.html Native health was apparently on the decline long before Columbus came: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/29/science/social/29INDI.html http://www.sciencedaily.org/releases/2002/11/021101070028.htm The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on Native American sites in New Mexico: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/travel/RUINS.html The burials recently found at Teotihuacan reveal a Mayan connection: http://clasdean.la.asu.edu/news/teomaya.htm http://www.newswise.com/articles/2002/10/TEOMAYA.ASL.html http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021111/misc/11scibrfs.lede.htm A horrible pun in the headline on the discovery of the Templo Mayor's foundations in Mexico City: http://www.thenewsmexico.com/printedformat.asp?id=38962 The 'accidental mummies' of Guanajuato will be the subject of an upcoming edition of the National Geographic's "Mummy Road Show": http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1031_021031_MummyRoadShow.html NASA satellite technology is to be used to preserve Native sites while restoring wetlands: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/01nov_coast2050.htm?list847478 Plans are afoot to make one of the oldest depictions of the Stars and Stripes in Europe more of a touristy thing: http://www.news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1204572002 There are plans to excavate the CSS Georgia: http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/4433372.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2136054,00.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ A new issue of British Archaeology is out, with a nice piece on Roman roads, among other things: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba67/index.shtml Biblical Archaeology Review seems to have fasttracked the webbification of its Nov/Dec issue (for obvious reasons): http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html Archaeology Odyssey is also on the web rather early: http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The Roman site of Rosia Montana/Alburnus Maior is threatened by development of a gold mine (by a Canadian company!); I'm not sure if this one will get picked up by the press so here's the official site of the planned protest: http://www.rosiamontana.org/ ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ A number of items in pdf format (pardon the redundancy there) from the people at Textkit ... check out their homepage if you've never been there before: http://www.textkit.com/index.php William W. Goodwin, *The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis* : http://www.textkit.com/download.php?id=103 J.J. White, *An Illustrated Dictionary to Xenophon's Anabasis*: http://www.textkit.com/download.php?id=120 North and Hillard, *Greek Prose Composition for Schools*: http://www.textkit.com/download.php?id=51 (text) http://www.textkit.com/download.php?id=54 (key) Bennett, *A Latin Grammar*: http://www.textkit.com/download.php?id=53 B. D'Ooge, *Select Orations*: http://www.textkit.com/download.php?id=55 H. Pearson, *Latin Prose Composition based on Cicero*: http://www.textkit.com/download.php?id=99 G.R.S. Mead, *Apollonius of Tyana*: http://www.theosophical.ca/AppolloniusTyana.htm ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Last week, the 'mafia' gangs in the Ukraine were looting sites; now it's similar gangs in Afghanistan: http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s717558.htm ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Maria Fasolo, "Hipparchia: The World's First Liberated Woman": http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/bl/uc_fasolo1a.htm ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Umberto Eco, *Baudolino*: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/10/20/RV156150.DTL C. Winterer, *The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life 1780-1910*: http://www.thenewrepublic.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021104&s=bowersock110402&c=1 C. Woodward, *In Ruins*: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/books/review/27QUAMMET.html K. Jobes and M. Silva, *Invitation to the Septuagint* (long .pdf) http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/1341_3027.pdf J.L. Gaddis, *The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past*: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/books/30BERN.html Marina Warner, *Fantastic Metamorphoses*: http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/politicsphilosophyandsociety/0,6121,824655,00.html M. Broshi, *Bread, Wine, Walls, and Scrolls*: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=225794&contrassID=2&subContrassID=11&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=225794 ================================================================ STAGE REVIEWS ================================================================ Antigone (New York): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/arts/27WOLF.html http://www.icflorida.com/partners/wftv/news/ap_story.html/Entertainment/AP.V2321.AP-Theater-Antigon.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ There's a brief item on an exhibition on the history of writing (Athens) that looks kind of interesting: http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2002/02-10-26.ana.html#22 Leonard DaVinci and the Splendor of Poland (Milwaukee): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/arts/design/27LOOS.html Magna Graecia (Cleveland): http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021023/ap_en_ot/wkd_greek_art_1 The Adventures of Hamza (New York): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/28/arts/28WEEK.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ The latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga (this one appeared repeatedly in the Athenian News Agency items this week): http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/2002/02-10-30.ana.html#17 .... and a letter is up for sale which will add fuel to the fire: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2388405.stm The National Gallery (London) has acquired a nice painting of Diana and Endymion (by Subleyras): http://www.amnnews.com/press.jsp?id=916 ClassCon in the Australian racing pages: http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,5407663-23829,00.html .... and a piece on Karl Rove: http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-11-01/pols_feature2.html Third grade 'celatores': http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/021101/Area_QUarles.asp They'll be celebrating the arrival of spring in South Africa in classical fashion: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=5&art_id=qw1036050482866C436&set_id=9 A classics voice heard in Brown's debate over whether to allow high school students to take summer college courses: http://www.browndailyherald.com/stories.cfm?S=1&ID=7702 Hunter Rawlings will be returning to the classroom: http://www.theithacajournal.com/news/stories/20021102/localregional/285419.html Folks following the Bellisles case might be interested in these: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/27/education/27BOOK.html http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20021101-32833616.htm Etymologies: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1078&dept_id=151025&newsid=5926693&PAG=461&rfi=9 (ardiem!) http://www.bouldernews.com/bdc/religion/article/0,1713,BDC_2477_1518369,00.html (columbarium) http://www.bangornews.com/editorialnews/article.cfm?ID=98914&byline=DianaBowley&cname=Statewide§ion=Penquis&tt=12AM (nemini parco) http://www.post-gazette.com/forum/20021102edmondale1102p2.asp (senex) http://finance.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,5402156%255E462,00.html (sagitta) http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2002/nov/01/opinion/20021101opi4.html (caelum) http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2002/10/31/3dc0f3f686270 (occasio) Perfess'r Harris: http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html Philologos: http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.11.01/arts5.html Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-11-02&id=2442 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/ U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Ekrem Akurgal (Archaeologist): http://www.hri.org/news/turkey/anadolu/2002/02-11-01.anadolu.html#12 ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ James Ossuary: http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=14542 (bone fragments mentioned!) http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/James'%20Ossuary.htm http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/10/27/jesus.inscription.ap/index.html http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAFFW0OT7D.html Pre-Columbian Chinese Visit to America: http://www.msnbc.com/news/828733.asp http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=1662694 http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/22/njunk22.xml&sSheet=/news/2002/10/22/ixhome.html Temple Mount Wall: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1035817159009 Monitor: http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues02/nov02/monitor.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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