From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Feb 24 06:32:29 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g1OEWSnJ118204 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 06:32:28 -0800 Received: FROM mxu3.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Feb 24 06:32:27 2002 -0800 Received: from deimos.idirect.com (deimos.idirect.com [207.136.80.182]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with ESMTP id g1OEWRek025241 for ; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 06:32:27 -0800 Received: from on-ham-a53-01-160.look.ca (on-ham-a53-01-160.look.ca [216.154.51.160]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23734; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:32:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 09:35:28 -0500 From: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53d) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <18216434250.20020224093528@idirect.com> To: exploratorclassics Subject: In Explorator 4.43 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ================================================================ in explorator 4.43 classical world edition ================================================================ Thanks to John Hill, "zuamdario", Mark Elliott, Arthur Shippee, Ardle MacMahon, Martin Roseveare, Rick Pettigrew, David Webb, Michael Oberndorf, Maurice O'Sullivan, Nir Lalkin, Jean Laplante, and Trevor Watkins,for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Okay ... climate has been responsible for the destruction of civilizations (we are told) and now it's also responsible for the rise of civilization: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F22%2Fwnino22.xml Restoration work on a Middle Kingdom palace has led to the discovery of some Greco-Roman era storage facilities: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o180222g.htm This one has obvious political overtones: an Egyptian researcher is claiming to have evidence that the Jews didn't come to Egypt until it was under Greek rule (or something like that): http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html6/o170222a.htm An 8,000 b.p. "household mixer" has been found in Macedonia (Macedoine?): http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A10&aa=9&eidos=S A number of "female beautification aids" have been discovered in central Greece: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A10&aa=2&eidos=S Archaeologists working in Macedonia have discovered a stone seal dating to the fifth millennium B.C./B.C.E. (among other things): http://www1.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1272664 http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13469 .... more news from the the recent conference in Salonica, where numerous recent discoveries were made known: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A10&aa=8&eidos=S Archaeology has provided evidence of an early suspension system used by ancient Briton types to keep them from being bounced out of their chariots: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_524409.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-212182,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_1831000/1831314.stm (on the chariot used as a model, see: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0107/newsbriefs/celts) An early Christian cemetery has been discovered in Athboy (Ireland): http://www.unison.ie/meath_chronicle/stories.php3?ca=34&si=693684&issue_id=6920 Doubts are beginning to be raised in regards to the supposed sunken civilization in the Gulf of Cambay: http://www1.timesofindia.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=1596309 Not sure how to classify this one ... it's a piece from the New York Times which has rather interesting things to say about how certain groups might justify destruction of ancient monuments: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/15/international/middleeast/15SAUD.html The remains of the HMS Sussex might have been found: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0224shipwreck24.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new online issue of Archaeology out, with abstracts on who's in tomb 55 (Egyptian), the Moche, ancient Ecuadorian seafarers, among other things: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index It has been brought to my attention that Chester City Council puts out a newsletter sort of thing with "Dig News" (obviously with finds from around Chester): http://www.chestercc.gov.uk/heritage/archaeology/dig_news.html If anyone is aware, by the way, of other such online publications, please drop me a line!!!! CO2 Science Magazine has a good article on world climate changes over the past thousand or so years: http://www.co2science.org/edit/editor.htm The Utne (rhymes with chutney) Reader has a short piece on damage done to antiquities in Iraq: http://www.utne.com/bTechnology.tmpl?command=search&db=dArticle.db&eqheadlinedata=Attack%20on%20Antiquity ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The Bible and Interpretation site has a new feature up about The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Tell_esSafiGath.htm The History News Network has an interesting piece entitled, "Top Six Differences Between the Ancient and Modern Olympics": http://historynewsnetwork.org/articles/article.html?id=572 ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Another bust in Athens (scroll down a bit): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13707 ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst is reprising a blast from the past on the Palace of Minos: http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa042300a.htm Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill presents an article from MH Magazine: John R. Mixter, "Alexander's First Great Victory": http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blalexandersfirstgreatvictory.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Seth Benardete, *Essays on Greek Poetry and Philosophy*: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/16/arts/16SHEL.html M. Camp, *The Archaeology of Athens*: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A38&aa=2&eidos=S S.C. Reif, *A Jewish Archive from Old Cairo: The History of Cambridge University's Genizah Collection*: http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=130320 ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ On the antiquity of the carrot: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12949&m=A40&aa=1&eidos=S I'm still trying to figure this one out, which seems to be using classical precedents as an argument against meat consumption (maybe): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=13680 Scandal precedents in the ancient Olympics: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0202210011feb21.story?coll=chi%2Dleisure%2Dhed Here's what the new (ugh)Acropolis Museum will look like, apparently: http://www2.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1037071 http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12950&m=A35&aa=1&eidos=S Folks might be interested in a review of an exhibition of an artist who paints in black figure and red figure style: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/02/22/23nelson-lp.htm With every man, woman, and their dog in academe being accused of plagiarism these days, it was only a matter of time before a classicist was mentioned: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/22/education/22SUNY.html There's a miniseries about Julius Caesar in the works: http://www.deangelisgroup.com/m33home.htm .... and there's more news about upcoming Al the Great flix: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4361101,00.html This appears to be an attempt to give a cheese rolling contest in Cheshire rather more antiquity than it probably has: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_524938.html Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-23&id=1619 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-23&id=1617 .... and plenty of ClassCon in a piece berating the loss of numerous symbols of Briton's numismatic heritage: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-02-23&id=1606 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Michel Fleury: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F02%2F21%2Fdb2102.xml G.P. Goold: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=134488 ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Elgin Marbles Saga: http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=253067 Jewellery Use by Early Humans: http://www.nature.com/nsu/020218/020218-3.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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