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Items of interest from my newsletter:


The Times of London has a report on Sotheby's sale of an Etruscan/Greek cup 
which was eventually shown to have been stolen from an Italian site:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,26061,00.html

The Times of London also has an interesting piece on the matching of a head 
of Livia with its body:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,24550,00.html

ON THE NEWSSTANDS

There's a new issue of Archaeology on the newsstand with a number of really 
excellent features worth checking out, including abstracts on articles 
dealing with Jerf  el Ahmar, Arthur Evans (by Alexander MacGillvary), etc. 
and full text treatment of Newsbriefs. Here's the link to the TOC:

http://www.archaeology.org/0011/toc/toc.html


CLASSICISTS' CORNER

There's some fleeting classical content in a piece on postmodernism in the 
Sydney Morning Herald:

http://www.smh.com.au:80/news/0010/27/text/features10.html

The Ottawa Citizen supposedly has a piece on the resurgence of Latin in 
Ontario at the following url, but I get nothing but a red screen ... 
perhaps others will have better luck:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com:80/national/001022/4731409.html

The Village Voice (!) has a semi-review of Jonathan Lear's *Happiness, 
Death and the Remainder of Life* which might of of interest to the 
philosophers among us:

http://www.villagevoice.com:80/issues/0041/vincent.shtml


FOLLOWUPS:

Cleopatra's signature:

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/cleopatra001026.html
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001026/ts/people_cleopatra_dc_1.html

REVIEWS

The Independent has a review of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto *Civilizations*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/enjoyment/Books/Reviews/2000-10/civilisations211000.shtml


OBITUARY

J.S. Morrison:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,26052,00.html
http://live.altavista.com/scripts/editorial.dll?ei=2290497&ern=y

AT ABOUT.COM

Archaeology Guide Kris Hurst's latest is a review of *Ancient Ireland 
Before the Celts*:

http://archaeology.about.com/library/read/blflanagan.htm

Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is on Thesmophoria in Athens:

http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa102400a.htm?terms=a1

Latin Guide Janet Burns' latest is an etymological survery of 
countries'  names:

http://latin.about.com/library/weekly/aa102400a.htm

.