From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Feb 28 06:46:54 1999 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.1+UW98.09/8.9.2+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA46922 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 06:46:53 -0800 Received: from icarus.idirect.com (icarus.idirect.com [207.136.80.7]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id GAA04193 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 06:46:53 -0800 Received: from orion.idirect.com (orion.idirect.com [207.136.80.167]) by icarus.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA29221 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:46:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from idirect.com (ts3-1h-285.idirect.com [216.154.17.31]) by orion.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA00357 for ; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:46:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from default ([127.0.0.1]) by idirect.com with SMTP (Mailtraq/1.0.0.992) id IDRC926510557 for classics@u.washington.edu; Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:45:26 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19990228094523.0069b8b8@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: dmeadows@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:45:23 -0500 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: In (and not) the latest Explorator Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Hops: 1 [assorted things crammed into one ... sorry for the length of this one] In the latest Explorator: Archaeology Magazine's current issue has been updated, with plenty of info on ancient Alexandria: http://www.archaeology.org/9903/toc/toc.html ============== Speaking of Alexandria ... folks on the list who are interested in the site etc. will want to be alert for quite a bit of television programming related to Cleo and her city, ferinstance: * At 9.00 p.m. eastern tonight on A&E is a two-hour program called "Cleopatra's World" * At 9.00 p.m. Eastern on March 14 on the American version of the Discovery Channel is a new program entitled *Cleopatra's Palace* which documents Goddio's expeditions there * At 10.00 p.m. Eastern on March 14 on the American version of the Discovery Channel is a new program entitled *The Real Cleopatra* -- The website for the Discovery Channel stuff is at: http://www.discovery.com/stories/history/cleopatra/cleopatra.html with a number of features previewing the programs *** Canadian viewers can see *Cleopatra's Palace* at the same time on the same night on the Canadian version of the Discovery Channel; it is followed by something called *Cleopatra Biography* which is probably the same as *The Real Cleopatra* ============== Not in the latest Explorator: The Telegraph has a piece on translating the humour in Asterix comics from French into English ... kind of fun to read (watch the wrap): http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000405944438668&rtmo=Vqf6VwJK&atmo=99999 999&P4_FOLLOW_ON=/99/2/25/tlaste.html&pg=/et/99/2/25/tlaste.html Poking around the Independent site also turned up a couple of book reviews of interest (from a couple months ago): Women in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell http://www.independent.co.uk/books/stories/BR000082.htm Punic Wars by Nigel Bagnal http://www.independent.co.uk/books/stories/BR000088.htm The somewhat gaudy History Today site has a useful article in its December 98 issue on how to study history, which might be very useful for undergrads: http://www.historytoday.com/historyreview/1298/feature/survival.stm ]|[ David Meadows ]|[ http://web.idirect.com/~atrium ]|[ .