From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jul 22 05:50:21 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6MCoD096970 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 05:50:13 -0700 Received: from ares.idirect.com (ares.idirect.com [207.136.80.180]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f6MCoCs13605 for ; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 05:50:13 -0700 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-01-112.look.ca [216.154.51.112]) by ares.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA80197; Sun, 22 Jul 2001 08:53:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010722084409.00ab9dd0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 08:44:34 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu, ancien-l@listserv.louisville.edu, rome-arch@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, Roman_History_Books@egroups.com, PreModernWorldHistory@egroups.com, From: David Meadows Subject: In Explorator 4.12 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed ================================================================ in explorator 4.12 classical world edition ================================================================ Welcome to our new look! It's all part of the facelift going on with all my newsletters and the atrium website ... hope you like it! *** Thanks to Vittorio Todisco, Michael Ruggieri, Sujazz, Bill Kennedy, and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ ArabicNews has a brief item on the discovery of a byzantine-era church: A brief item in eKathimerini reports on the discovery of an obviously ancient (but not dated) grave during road construction near Gerakas (you'll have to scroll down a bit): La Repubblica reports on the discovery of a number of amphora (wine and oil) in Albegna and the ancient wine trade (in Italian): The Independent has an item on the discovery of a 280 mile (!) long section of Roman aqueduct in Turkey: Once again, Pompeii seems to be under threat from the mafia: eKathimerini reports on the recovery of a smuggled marble bull in Vavrona: ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ Humanities has an interesting interview with Lynn H. Nicholas on the theft of art during WWII: .... and a good article on the APIS project (digitizing papyri etc.): ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ A message on BritArch pointed me to an archaeology simulation program called ArchDig, which looks like it might be very useful for teachers of various subjects historical, as well as fun for armchair archaeologists: ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Alaric and the Goths: ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ The Independent has a review of F. Waquet, *Latin, or the Empire of a Sign*: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=84484 ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ The gas which supposedly inspired the Pythia at Delphi is in the news: AthensNews has a feature on ancient bathing facilities: Gossip about a movie about Alexander the Great: Some classical references in the news: I *think* this is a new column by Peter Jones ... he's not officially listed in the Table of Contents: Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini U.S. Weather in Latin: ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Aboukir Bay (some new stuff here!): Marathon (new discoveries): cf. 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