From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Oct 7 07:07:42 2001 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+UW01.08) with SMTP id f97E7eN108898 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 07:07:40 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Oct 07 07:07:37 2001 -0700 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.08) with ESMTP id f97E7bw28552 for ; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 07:07:37 -0700 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-172.look.ca [216.154.51.172]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05898; Sun, 7 Oct 2001 10:07:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011007095928.026006a0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 09:59:51 -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 Explorator 4.23 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.23 classical world edition ================================================================ Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks! *** Thanks to Bill Kennedy,'SqueezeeD', Arthur Shippee, and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ We're starting to get a trickle of information on the evidence to support the 'Black Sea Flood' theory: http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1003-104.html http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/01/science/social/01FLOO.html They're going to raise the statue of Canub from harbour of Alexandria: http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011004/2001100442.html A monumental tomb dating to the Roman era has been found which contains some 3000 mummified hawks: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html5/o041021.htm An awful lot of hype is surrounding the discovery of a previously unknown city in northern Greece dating to the time of Alexander the Great: http://news.24.com/News24/Technology/Science_Nature/0,1113,2-13-46_1088470,00.html Ancient Helike is also emerging: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=102410 eKathimerini has a brief item on the discovery of two Roman era colossi at Messene (scroll down a bit): http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=102373 The Oklahoma Museum of Natural History has been given some Greek and Roman artifacts: http://www.news-star.com/stories/100401/edu_museum.shtml We haven't had an Alexandrian Library update for a while, so here's one: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20011002/wl/egypt_alexandria_library_2.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/636646.asp And on the "I-don't-quite-know-how-to-classify-this-but-someone- probably-wants-to-read-it" front, a vicar in Britain is blaming some magical medieval stone for the severity of the foot and mouth outbreak and wants action taken thereon: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_411037.html Similarly, there are reports that the people responsible for the events of 9/11 used 'steganography' as one of their means of communication: http://www.ecommercetimes.com/perl/story/13949.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new issue of Archaeology online, with abstracts of articles on Egyptian funerary matters, Israel Finkelstein, the unexcavated bits of Qin's tomb, the Uffington horse, the Anasazi, et alia: http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=curiss/index A new issue of Bible Review is also online, with articles on the Seductress of Qumran, whether the Last Supper was a Seder, and other things: http://www.bib-arch.org/br2.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Also new to the Archaeology site is their guide to Nero's Domus Aurea: http://www.archaeology.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?page=pdfs/nero/index ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a review of Walker and Higgs, *Cleopatra of Egypt*: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa090401a.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ AthensNews has a review of M.R. Lagerlof, *The Sculptures of the Parthenon, Aesthetics and Interpretation*: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12930&m=A40&aa=2&eidos=S The Times has a review of Barry Cunliffe, *The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek: the Man Who Discovered Britain*: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,217-2001340799,00.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ "Matricide, murder, and mayhem" ... gots to be a Greek tragedy: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,261-2001344535,00.html AthensNews has an interesting tidbit on the influence of the Greek world on French cuisine: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12929&m=A42&aa=1&eidos=S In case you've missed it, a student is suing her school because she failed her Latin A-levels: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-2001340532,00.html Here's the nachleben of Pheidippides' run: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12930&m=A46&aa=2&eidos=S Last week we had a letter of Stephen Miller in regards to archaeological fallout from 9/11 ... today we have a response from Tom Palaima (scroll down a bit): http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=101779 On a semisimilar front, Martin Berman writes in the Guardian on how America currently resembles late imperial Rome: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4271398,00.html And on yet another semisimilar front, the NYPost (!) has a piece on Mary Zimmerman's *Metamorphosis* (not really a review, but some interesting comments): http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/5812.htm Folks looking for an example of someone making it big with a classics background will be interested in: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=97469 Perhaps more practical: an excellent article on why Latin and Greek are important languages: http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/10/07/stiecoedu02001.html The Delphic Oracle is back in the news, although there's no real news: http://www.ctnow.com/scripts/editorial.dll?eetype=Article&eeid=5399223&render=y&Table=&ck=&userid=1&userpw=.&uh=1,0,&ver=3.0 Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2001-10-06&id=1156 A New Yorker cartoon: http://www.cartoonbank.com/cartoonissue_closeup.asp?pf%5Fid=46381&dept%5Fid=1001 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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