From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jan 13 06:42:40 2002 Received: from mailscan1.cac.washington.edu (mailscan1.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.16]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.6+UW01.08/8.11.6+UW01.10) with SMTP id g0DEgSn153272 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 06:42:29 -0800 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan1.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Jan 13 06:42:25 2002 -0800 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW01.12) with ESMTP id g0DEgO3F028052 for ; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 06:42:24 -0800 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-02-11.look.ca [216.154.51.203]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA61268; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:42:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020113094355.027daec0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:44:33 -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 4.37 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.37 classical world edition ================================================================ Thanks to Doug Weller, Rick Pettigrew, Gene Barkley, Maurice O'Sullivan, David Webb, Robin Burtcher, Alison Barker,Arthur Shippee, and Trevor Watkins, for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Scythian gold which was discovered last summer appears to predate contact with the Greeks: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/09/arts/design/09GOLD.html http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20020109/en/scythian_gold_from_siberia_said_to_predate_the_greeks_1.html A Ptolemaic "city" (a tomb, surely) has been discovered in Menya: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o090122h.htm http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020109/2002010943.html A new museum (period focus is unclear) will open next year in Metrouh (Egypt): http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o090122a.htm A new suggestion in regards to the Elgin Marbles: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4334387,00.html Excavation of a tomb in Italy might suggest that Dante was not so accurate in his description of "Cannibal Count Ugolino" in the Inferno: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020105/sc/italy_dante_dc_1.html http://dsc.discovery.com/news/reu/20020107/dante.html Keeping in a literary frame of mind, archaeologists are claiming to have found "Ophelia's well" (scroll down a bit): http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F01%2F11%2Fnbul11.xml ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ Fortean Times (!) has put some items of interest up of late, most recently a piece on Ron Wyatt: http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/151_ronwyatt.shtml .... and a really interesting piece by Peter James on the simulacrum of Niobe: http://www.forteantimes.com/articles/142_niobe.shtml Nature has a piece on booms and busts in the ancient Near East, including one when Alexander the Great died: http://www.nature.com/nsu/020101/020101-9.html ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ I thought the Jerusalem Post had already reviewed this one, but if not, it currently has a review of Edward Fox, *Palestine Twilight: The Murder of Dr. Albert Glock and the Archaeology of the Holy Land*: http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2002/01/07/Books/Books.41260.html The Guardian has a review of E. Zangger's *The Future of the Past: Archaeology in the 21st Century*: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4329107,00.html .... and one of Jeremy Campbell, *The Liar's Tale: A History of Falsehood*: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4329103,00.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ In the gossip department, now there are rumours of a 10 part miniseries about Alexander the Great (I'm not sure about this site): http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/020109.htm .... but that site led me to this one, which has an interviewish thing with Ridley Scott in which he says he's working on an Alexander the Great film: http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---10293,00.html Also on the 'classically-themed-movies-are-hot' front comes news of one based on the Jason and the Argonauts tale: http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020108/en/film-dish_1.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4331298,00.html Folks might be interested in a brief review of *In the Shape of a Boar*: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12944&m=A38&aa=2&eidos=S Now Classicists can say "Colder than a bronze diskobolos" rather than make references to simians, I think: http://www.athensnews.gr/D11012002/1ng2a.jpg .... along with an interesting related editorial: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12944&m=A99&aa=9&eidos=S Here's an interesting 'role reversal' custom from Greece which might be useful for comparative purposes: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12944&m=A10&aa=1&eidos=S Here's some more coverage of Richard Saller becoming Provost at UChicago: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/020110/saller.shtml Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-01-12&id=1486 .... and Dot Wordsworth ibidem: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-01-12&id=1484 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Charles Segal: http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/012/obituaries/Charles_Segal_65+.shtml http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/stories_news/xsegal_20020113.htm ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Ancient Feasts: http://www.ekathimerini.com/news/content.asp?id=113549 Bamiyan Buddhas: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=776022050 Midas Throne: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0110/p14s1-alar.html New Museum for Tutankhamen: http://www.arabia.com/life/article/english/0,1690,121486,00.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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