From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Sep 9 06:23:02 2001 Received: from mxu104.u.washington.edu (mxu104.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f89DN1094772 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 06:23:01 -0700 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by mxu104.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with SMTP id f89DN1x06426 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 06:23:01 -0700 Received: FROM phobos.idirect.com BY mxu4.u.washington.edu ; Sun Sep 09 06:23:00 2001 -0700 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-118.look.ca [216.154.51.118]) by phobos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA01578; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:27:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010909091834.02490bb0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 09:18:57 -0400 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 the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.19 classical world edition ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ What is possibly the oldest fortified settlement in the Aegean has been discovered on the island of Andros: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?aid=98628 AthensNews has a piece on the history of the excavations at Troy (I believe this was in the Times of London previously): http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12926&m=A24&aa=1&eidos=S Assorted Iron Age boats found near Fiskerton (UK) are being excavated: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001305231,00.html A Hellenistic site has been discovered near the Pakistan/Afghanistan border: http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/07/nat17.htm It would appear that Greek museums and sites still suffer from the problems they have suffered from for many years: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=98610 A huge reproduction of the Great Orpheus Pavement might be forced to leave Britain for financial reasons: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1526000/1526684.stm I'm not sure how, really, to classify this one but it will surely be of interest. In the wake of a lawsuit launched by the village of Diostomon (site a a WWII massacre by Nazi soldiers), a Greek court has allowed a number of German cultural assets in Greece -- including the DAI -- to be seized and auctioned off: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001310153,00.html U-Wire has a piece on Cornell's Dendrochronology lab: http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010907/business-247 ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new issue of British Archaeology online, with features on Nonsuch Palace, reuse of Roman sites by Anglo Saxons, Bronze Age funerals, and other items: http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba60/index.shtml ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The Bible Interpretation site has an interesting article up called "Excerpts from Invitation to the Septuagint", taken from a larger work by Karen Jobes and Moises Silva: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Septuagint.htm The Nisa (Turkmenistan) Expedition website has added some material about the 2001 campaign: http://parthia.com/nisa2001.htm ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Latin Guide Janet Burns'latest is a guest-written piece on why it is important to study Latin: http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa090101a.htm Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a piece on suggested term paper topics: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa091801a.htm ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ The Oriental Institute has put online "The 1905-1907 Breasted Expedition to Egypt and the Sudan: A Photographic Study", which is definitely worth a look: http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/PA/EGYPT/BEES/BEES.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Gerard Depardieu as the narrator in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex at Epidavros: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=98620 Rod Steiger is going to play Socrates: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=98328 Interesting classical content in an article in Linux Gazette (Homer is held up as part of the proofs justifying open source computing): http://linuxgazette.com/issue70/mcgucken.html AthensNews has an interesting thought piece on various Greek words for 'pain' (which would probably be better if you have the appropriate font installed, which I don't, apparently): http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12926&m=A35&aa=7&eidos=S Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-09-08&id=1074 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ 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 Many articles which don't expire will eventually show up with related items in the Atrium's Media Archive, which should debut before the end of August at: http://atrium-media.com/mediaarchive.html ================================================================ Explorator is Copyright (c) 2001 David Meadows. 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