From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Oct 8 08:51:26 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA163854 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:51:25 -0700 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id IAA14975 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:51:24 -0700 Received: from ns.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-184.look.ca [216.154.53.56]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA55808; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:51:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20001008115955.00a8f560@postoffice.idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@postoffice.idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 12:00:11 -0600 To: classics@u.washington.edu, ancIEN-L@LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU, latin@vlists.net, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com 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 issue 3.22 of my newsletter: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Gratias vobis ago for the heads up to: Sujazz, Arnd Lis, Bill Kennedy, (as always, with hopes that I didn't leave anyone out!). THE BIG NEWS This week's big news is the discovery of an undisturbed, apparently royal tomb in Syria dating to about 2300 B.C./B.C.E. by a team from Johns Hopkins (watch the wrap on the Telegraph piece): http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/jhu-ada100300.html http://www.arabia.com/article/0,1690,Life|30297,00.html http://www.sciencedaily.com:80/releases/2000/10/001002181619.htm http://www.foxnews.com:80/science/100600/tomb.sml http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20001004/hi_syriatomb.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=Qxam9HzR&atmo=hhhhhhhe&pg=/et/00/10/4/wmet04.html OLD WORLD NEWS Also potentially becoming big news (but discovered by a Canadian team and so not getting the exposure it might have received initially elsewhere ... there will probably be more next week), is the report of the discovery of a pre-Roman Illyrian sanctuary in Croatia: http://www.ngnews.com/news/2000/10/10032000/illyrian_3102.asp http://library.northernlight.com/FB20001002570000075.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20001002_79.html This should probably be a followup, but there is quite a bit of coverage about the 'saving' of Zeugma's artifacts: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_73868.html http://abcnews.go.com:80/sections/science/DailyNews/turkish_city001002.html http://library.northernlight.com/EC20001002330000027.html?cb=0&dx=1006&sc=0#doc .... a good background piece on Zeugma is in the latest issue of Archaeology Odyssey (more on this issue below): http://www.bib-arch.org/aond00/flood.html Discovery.com has a good piece on what bone analysis from remains coming from 5th-century Magna Graecia tell us about the original owner of the bones (awk!): http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20001003/hi_athlete.html CLASSICISTS' CORNER Disney.com has launched a new thing called 'Last Minute Book Reports' designed to summarize in an interesting way various bits of literature at a kid's level. The 'debut' presentation is on Homer's Odyssey and actually is not bad (if you're a teacher of kids at this level) or horrible (if you're the type to nitpick). In either case it's worth checking out ... you'll need the Flash plug in on your browser (hint: while loading you'll see a screen with a kid supposedly writing stuff; in the lower left corner of that screen you'll see the word Loading ... ... when it changes to "Skip intro", click on it or you might lose interest ... on a 56k modem expect to wait 2-3 minutes for the whole thing to load: http://www.Disney.com/lastminute Some folks might be interested to know that Empire Magazine conducted a poll and Maximus the Gladiator was voted the sexiest male movie character .... of course, the same magazine voted Princess Leia as the sexiest female movie character ... go figure (there's a pun in there somewhere): http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/10/02/timnwsnws03012.html ARCHAEOLOGY HOLLYWOOD STYLE On the Hollywood side of things, folks might be interested to know that 'The Rock' will be reprising his role as the Scorpion King (from the Mummy), and Angelina Jolie's real life dad will be playing her father when she plays the role of Lara Croft: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/entertainment/DailyNews/Casting000928.html AT ABOUT.COM Ancient History Guide latest feature is on Ted Hughes' translation of the Oresteia: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa100300a.htm?terms=a1 Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is on case endings: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa100200a.htm ON THE NEWSSTANDS Archaeology Odyssey has a new issue out with some really good stuff: On ancient Carthage: http://www.bib-arch.org/aond00/carthage1.html On a debate whether the Carthaginians really did sacrifice kiddies to Ba'al/Moloch: http://www.bib-arch.org/aond00/debate-n.html http://www.bib-arch.org/aond00/debate-y.html The TOC (with links to a couple of other features): http://www.bib-arch.org/aod2.html .