Ian Worthington,
Department of Classics,
University of Tasmania,
Hobart,
Tasmania 7001,
Australia.
e-mail: antiquity-editor@classics.utas.edu.au
In previous issues of *Electronic Antiquity* I gave a number
of electronic forums and the like; it seems best to repeat (and revise)
the information and integrate new material in an attempt to compile as
thorough a 'list' as possible.
FROM OCTOBER 1994 NEW LISTS WILL NOW APPEAR
AT THE *START* OF EACH SECTION
If anyone has information on other groups and lists petinent to
Classics and Ancient History, please let one or both of the editors
know at e-mail: antiquity-editor@classics.utas.edu.au.
The size of this feature now necessitates a division into four:
I. Texts
II. Journals
III. Discussion Groups
IV. Miscellanea (including other gopher/ ftp services
and pedagogical aids)
I. TEXTS
* LATIN AND GREEK TEXTS: A large collection can be read
through gopher or FTPeed from the CCT at Georgetown.
Address:
guvax.georgetown.edu.
The directory is:
cpet_projects_in_electronic_text.
The latest editions of the *Chronicle of Higher Education* may
also be read through the same gopher address.
* Caesar's *De Bello Gallico*, Livy's *Ab urbe condita* I, and
Virgil's *Aeneid*, *Eclogues* and *Georgics*:
can be found on the path: On-Line Library/Classics/Latin Texts for
all except Vergil, and On-Line Library/Classics/Vergil for Vergil.
They are also available by FTP from wiretap.spies.com and reside
in the following directories: /Library/Classic/Latin & /Library/Classic
/Vergil.
Although the above texts claim to be Text files, they seem to
include little Tex formatting that could not be removed by a simple
editor (usually a header and then /chap & /sec inserted at various
points). Beware of books II-III of Caesar's De Bello, these are raw
from the scanner and so are unedited with many ^s.
* The following 3 disks contain texts which come from Libellus, a
project to make public domain Latin texts widely available. We will add
to these disks and create new ones as Libellus releases more works of
this kind.
Please let us know if you would like the full list, with information
on how to order:
B&R Samizdat Express,
PO Box 161,
West Roxbury,
MA 02132,
U.S.A.
samizdat@world.std.com
CAESAR IN LATIN
one disk, over 500 Kbytes
Caesar's Gallic Wars, books I-III; plus Rice Holmes'
commentary.
CICERO, LIVY ET AL. IN LATIN
one disk, 500 Kbytes
Selected passages from Apuleius (Cupid), Ausonius (Mosella),
Catullus, Horace, Cicero, and Livy. (Also from the Libellus
Project.)
LATIN STUDY GUIDE
one disk, 800 Kbytes
Study Guide to Wheelock Latin by Dale A. Grote, Dept. of
Foreign Languages, U. of N. Carolina
This disk includes Professor Grote's latest revisions to chapters
21-39, which he sent to us directly.
* OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE:
archive@vax.ox.ac.uk.
The Oxford Text Archive is a facility provided by Oxford University
Computing Services. It has no connexion with Oxford University
Press or any other commercial organisation and exists to serve the
interests of the academic community by providing archival and
dissemination facilities for electronic texts at low cost.
The Archive offers scholars long term storage and maintenance of
their electronic texts free of charge. It manages non-commercial
distribution of electronic texts and information about them on behalf
of its depositors.
WHAT TEXTS DOES IT CONTAIN?
The Archive contains electronic versions of literary works by many
major authors in Greek, Latin, English and a dozen or more other
languages. It contains collections and corpora of unpublished
materials prepared by field workers in linguistics. It contains
electronic versions of some standard reference works. It has copies
of texts and corpora prepared by individual scholars and major
research projects worldwide. The total size of the Archive exceeds a
gigabyte and there are about a thousand titles in its catalogue.
WHERE CAN I GET A CATALOGUE?
The Catalogue is available in paper form by post from the address
below. New editions are published at least twice a year. It is also
available in electronic form, either as a formatted file for display at a
terminal or in a tagged form using SGML. These files are available
from a number of different places under various names:
(1) on the Oxford VAX Cluster as
OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.LIST
and OX$DOC:TEXTARCHIVE.SGML
(2) from various ListServers, e.g. LISTSERV@BROWNVM
(send the mail message GET HUMANIST FILELIST for details)
(3) by anonymous FTP from Internet site black.ox.ac.uk
(129.67.1.165) in the directory /ota
Wherever you are, you can send a note to ARCHIVE@VAX.OXFORD.AC.UK specifying
which
form you want.
WHAT ARE THE TEXTS LIKE?
Because the texts come from so many different sources, they are held
in many different formats. The texts also vary greatly in their
accuracy and the features which have been encoded. Some have
been proof read to a high standard, while others may have come
straight from an optical scanner, Some have been extensively tagged
with special purpose analytic codes, and others simply designed to
mimic the appearance of the printed source. The Archive does not
require texts to conform to any standard of formatting or accuracy.
HOW USABLE ARE THE TEXTS?
Most of the texts can be used with commonly available text indexing
and concordancing software, or can easily be converted for that
purpose. All texts are held as `plain ASCII' files on magnetic tape,
with no special formatting codes. Documentation of the coding s
cheme used in each text is supplied with it, wherever possible.
WHAT ABOUT COPYRIGHT?
Many of the texts in the Archive are subject to some form of
copyright restriction. The Archive's obligations to its depositors
generally restrict use of the texts to private study and research. In
some cases, depositors have also authorised use of the texts in
teaching. In all cases, users of the texts must agree not to use the
texts commercially and not to redistribute copies of them without
consultation.
HOW DO I ACCESS THE TEXTS?
If you are a registered user of Oxford University Computing Services
(i.e. you have an account on OXFORD.VAX or black), just send an
e-mail message to the username ARCHIVE (on either machine)
specifying which texts you want to use and for what purpose.
If you are not a registered OUCS user, you can access only texts in
categories P, U and A as described further below.
P category texts are in the public domain. No formality is needed for
these texts. They can be downloaded directly by anonymous FTP,
from black.ox.ac.uk or from other sites offering this facility. At
present, very few texts are in this category; subject to agreement
with our depositors we hope to increase the number greatly in the future.
U and A texts are usually distributed on magnetic tape or cartridge,
though smaller texts can be sent on diskette. We will also send copies
to you via the network, if you send us the required information (i.e.
a secure account-name and password), provided that this can be done
with reasonable success. Where copies are made on disk or tape, we
make a small distribution charge to cover media and postage which
*must* be paid in advance.
WHAT DO THE CODES IN THE CATALOGUE MEAN?
Each title in the list is preceded by a code made of of a single letter
indicating the availability of the text (U, A, P, or X), in some cases
followed by a star, a number identifying the text and another single
letter which gives some idea of the size of the text.
Availability codes:
X Available only to registered OUCS users. May not be copied U
Freely available for scholarly use in private research. U* Freely
available for scholarly use in private research and also for teaching
purposes.
A Available for scholarly use, but only with written authorisation
from the depositor.
P Public domain text. Available without formality to anyone.
Size codes:
A Size less than 512 Kb
B Size between 512 Kb and 1 Mb
C Size between 1 and 2 Mb
D Size between 2 and 5 Mb
E Size greater than 5 Mb
Depending on format, a standard 600 foot magnetic tape will hold up
to 50 texts of size category A. Most texts of size code A will fit on a
standard double density floppy diskette; any text of size code A or B
will fit on a standard high density diskette.
WHAT DO I DO TO ORDER A COPY OF A TEXT?
Texts with availability code P may be downloaded directly, either
from our anonymous FTP server at black.ox.ac.uk [129.67.1.165]
or from other FTP servers on the InterNet. For more information on
using FTP, please contact your local computing service.
For all other texts, you must complete and return the proforma. For
texts with availability code U, the only authorisation needed is your
signature on the Order Form. For A category texts, you must also
provide written authorisation from the depositor of the text; you s
hould therefore ask us for depositor details before ordering. All
orders must be prepaid to the account of Oxford University
Computing Service, in sterling or in US dollars. We cannot issue
invoices, and any orders which are not prepaid or not submitted on
the standard order form will be ignored.
THE OXFORD TEXT ARCHIVE IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
*a new Short List of titles held at Oxford* 40 titles now available in
TEI format for anonymous FTP * a new FTP service for licensed
access via the Internet
It's been a long time since we posted any news of our activities to
this or other lists. It's not that we've been inactive -- quite the
opposite in fact.
We have been converting texts to a standard TEI-compatible mark up
(with much appreciated help from Jeffrey Triggs at Bellcore, and
John Price-Wilkin at Virginia).
We have been experimenting with ways of saving time and money by
uusing FTP, Gopher, WWW etc to deliver material rather than tapes
and disks
We have been scouring the networks for new material of all kinds
We have been trying to find some additional and reliable sources of
ffunding, but cannot report much progress. Any philanthropists out
there, please form an orderly queue.
***** NEW ACCESSIONS ******
Our latest catalogue lists 1336 titles, in 28 languages. We have about
1.2 Gb of textual data, most of it freely available, some of it restricted
in one way or another. We want more. We're particularly interested
in scholarly minority-interest material which is not going to turn up
on CD-anything in the foreseeable future. We don't charge fees to
look after your material, and we keep track of what happens to it.
We do our best to make sure that whatever texts you deposit with us
are rendered as future-proof as we can make them but we don't
change the information you recorded. We're archivists, not
evangelists, for electronic text.
At the same time, now that some kind of standardization is at last
beginning to appear, we're eager to show that old wine can be put
into new bottles. So you'll find that quite a few texts are now
available in more than one form -- both the original, and a "TEI-
compatible" form. (When the original form is easily available
elsewhere, and particularly when the TEI form has more information
in it, then we may well drop the former from the catalogue. But don't
worry: it's still in the Archive....)
*********** NEW FTP SERVICES *************
Our ftp address is: ota.ox.ac.uk. You can log on as anonymous,
quoting your e-mail address as a password.
You can also download from the above address:
ota/textarchive.list our current catalogue
ota/textarchive.info information file + order form
There are two classes of texts available from this FTP server
(a) texts which are in TEI format and which we can make freely
aavailable (these all appear as category P texts in the shortlist)
(b) texts which are available only under our standard conditions of
uuse, (these all appear as category U or A in the shortlist)
[Just to confuse the issue, there are also texts which appear as
category P texts in the Shortlist, because they are freely available,
but which we have not yet checked or converted for TEI
compatibility, and which are therefore not available from our FTP
server, though you may well be able to get them from someone
else's. We will distribute them in the same way as (b) class texts if
you insist.]
A CLASS TEXTS (Freely Available)
You can just download these without formality using standard FTP
commands. In some cases there are additional usage constraints,
specified in the TEI header. We also hope that you won't redistribute
these texts in a mutilated state or without acknowledgment of where
you got them from. We can't enforce any of these things, obviously.
We think that the Internet is successful because -- and as long as --
people trust each other.
To see what (a) class texts are available now, just take a look in the
directory ota. It's arranged, like the ShortList, by language, and
within that by Author. There are x texts in there today, and there will
be more. Each text has a conformant TEI header, and each text is a
legal TEI compatible document, using a special document type
definition (dtd), which you can also download from the same
directory (look in ota/TEI). Eventually, there'll be some more
introductory stuff on what SGML is, why the TEI is a Good Thing
etc etc. Just now, we're working flat out getting the texts in there.
Here's the list of what was there when I prepared this note:
Anonymous: Gammer Gurtons Needle
Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Princess of Mars
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim; Nigger of the Narcissus
Charles Darwin: Origin of Species
Arthur Conan Doyle: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; Casebook of
Sherlock Holmes; His last bow; Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes; Sign
of Four; Valley of Fear; Hound of the Baskervilles; Return of
Sherlock Holmes; A Study in Scarlet
Henry James: The Europeans; Roderick Hudson; The Watch
Jack London: Klondike Tales; The Seawolf; The Call of the Wild;
Whitefang
Andrew Marvell: English Poems (1688)
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
John Milton: Paradise Lost
Lucy M. Montgomery: Ann of Avonlea
William Morris: News from Nowhere
Baroness Orczy: The Scarlet Pimpernel
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Antony Trollope: Lady Anna; Ayalas Angel; The Eustace Diamonds;
Can you Forgive her; Phineas Finn; Phineas Redux; Rachel Ray;
Dr Wortle's School;
Mark Twain: A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King Arthur
H.G. Wells: The Invisible Man; The War of the Worlds; The Time
Machine
(B) CLASS TEXTS : (Restricted access)
The majority of texts in the Archive are and always have been held in
trust for a Depositor. Rather than keep track of a zillion different
contracts with each Depositor, we worked out a single contract
which is the basis of our standard user declaration form. It has
served to keep us out of the law courts for the last twenty five years,
so it can't have been all bad.
Because it's a contract, we have to have a signed paper copy of the
declaration in our hands before we can issue copies of the texts.
Once we have that declaration, we can send you copies of restricted
texts, on diskette, cartridge or magnetic tape, or even over the
network.
Up till this week, the only way you could get copies of (b) class
texts over the network was to tell us an account and password on y
our machine. We would then bash the files across to you, for free.
This was a rather unsatisfactory procedure in several ways: we think
we now have a better one. It's still free and it works like this:
you send us a signed order form, as usual - on the order form you
specify the password of your choice - we place copies of the files
you ordered in a special directory under ota, aaccess to which
requires you to quote both a personal identifier (which we will give
you) and the password (which you have told us) - we send you e-
mail giving details of how to access the directory - you download
copies of the files you ordered, using conventional ftp ccommands.
after a fixed period of time (usually about a week) your personal
iidentifier is removed and the file copies deleted
**********THE DOWN SIDE************
We save until the very end of this note the inevitable piece of bad
news. After 25 years, we've been told very firmly that we have to
increase our prices to something a bit nearer a realistic level. Not
only that, but within the European Community we must charge VAT
at 17.5% on every order. We've taken this opportunity to rethink the
way in which we charge slightly.
We charge only for material costs, postage and packing on orders for
texts sent on magnetic media of various kinds. We have abolished the
"per text" fee, and we are no longer insisting on payment in advance.
We are still charging over the odds for diskettes because they take us
a disproportionate amount of effort to produce.
The cost is worked out as follows:
Magnetic tape: #50 ($80) each
DC350 tape cartridge #30 ($50) each
Diskette #20 ($35) each
Invoicing charge #10 ($20) payable if order is not prepaid
Postage surcharge #10 ($20) for orders outside EC
Add VAT at 17.5% for orders within EC
We will continue to give an estimate for the cost of any order free of
charge. And, of course, if you use our new FTP service, then you
don't need to pay us a penny.
We look forward to hearing from you in the new academic year!
Lou Burnard and Alan Morrison
archive@ox.ac.uk
* An interesting e-book project called the Eris project makes available
books to the public in e-accessible form. The list is quite long and
very comprehensive and the literature on the classics such as Plato,
Aristotle, Tacitus up to the modern works like Kant, Shakespeare,
etc. is quite complete. The project also has Augustine's
Confessions as well as Plotinus' Enneads (6 books).
The literature is at least available through gopher access (probably
also available through ftp somehow) via the University of Notre
Dame gopher. After entering the U of N.D. gopher, choose 3.
University of Notre Dame Information, then 7. Library and
Infromation Resources, then 2. Access to Electronic Books where
you will find three different e-book projects and the second one is
the Eris project.
* DEAD SEA SCROLLS:
The images are freely available via ftp from the Library of Congress.
location: seq1.loc.gov
directory: /pub/deadsea.scrolls.exhibit/exhibit
The Library of Congress generally includes "viewers", i.e.
expansion software to look at the compressed images on your
computer. There is a directory named "viewers" in the Dead Sea
Scrolls exhibit:
Ftp to sumex-aim.standford.edu,
change to the directory /info-mac/grf/util
for a large selection of graphics viewers
(download the file "00Utility-abstracts.abs" first, and read it for file
descriptions).
The GIFConverter 2.3.2 works well with either monochrome or
colour and will JPEG and save in additional formats (TIFF, PICT,
Startup Screen)
II. JOURNALS
*Reviews from *Scholia* are available by FTP and GOPHER at
und.ac.za; i.e.:
FTP: ftp.und.ac.za and then cd pub/und/classics/reviews
GOPHER: gopher.und.ac.za, housed under Campus Information
System, Classics, Scholia_Reviews.
John Hilton
Department of Classics
University of Natal
DURBAN4001
South Africa
*BRYN MAWR CLASSICAL REVIEW* (*BMCR* reviews books
on Greek and Latin literature and Greek and Roman history, and
has occasional notices (e.g. about conferences).
To subscribe, write to:
listserv@cc.brynmawr.edu
put nothing on subject line,then as a message:
subscribe BMCR-L your name
*BRYN MAWR MEDIAEVAL REVIEW* (*BMMR*), also of
relevance to Classicists:
*BMMR* will publish timely reviews of current work in all areas
of medieval studies, a field it will interpret as broadly as possible
(chronologically, geographically, culturally, etc.). We are eager to
develop a large and diverse stable of reviewers and to offer broad
coverage of interesting current work from all over the world. To
that end, we will be assisted by a distinguished editorial advisory
board, who will themselves review for us and help us find
additional reviewers; but expressions of interest from potential
reviewers and of course from authors and publishers wishing to
submit review copies will be welcomed by any of the editors
listed above.
There will be no paper *BMMR*. Reviews will ship serially as they
are ready. Once a month, a 'masthead' file will remind readers of
the makeup of the editorial staff and contain concise instructions
for subscribing, unsubscribing, back issues, and the like. (Back
issues will be available by ftp and gopher [with WAIS indexing to
facilitate searching] through the University of Virginia's library e-
text service, as is already the case for *BMCR*.) There will also be
a 'Books Received' file shipped monthly, with notes by books
still unplaced for review -- to encourage qualified readers to
volunteer.
There will also be opportunity for author's replies, discussion of
earlier reviews, and well-conceived columns of opinion on the
current medieval scholarly scene. At the editors' discretion, other
informational material (e.g., conference announcements) may also
be included.
TO SUBSCRIBE to *BMMR* alone:
Send mail message to:
listserv@cc.brynmawr.edu
with nothing on the subject line and the single message line:
SUBSCRIBE BMMR-L Your Name
TO SUBSCRIBE TO *BMMR* *and* *BMCR* (new subscribers):
Send mail message to:
listserv@cc.brynmawr.edu
with nothing on
the subject line and the single message line:
SUBSCRIBE BMR-L Your Name
SPECIAL FOR current *BMCR* SUBSCRIBERS:
If you wish to subscribe to both, go ahead and send the message
to:
listserv@cc.brynmawr.edu for BMR-L just described,
but add a second line:
UNSUB BMCR-L.
If you are told you can't unsubscribe, please refer the error message to
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu -- this will happen most often to people
who subscribed to BMCR some time ago from Bitnet addresses.
*ARETHUSA* and *TAPhA* are producing electronic preprints in
advance of the appearance of the 'hard copy' journals.
*ARETHUSA*:
index and abstracts of forthcoming articles are
available as follows:
via gopher:
Enter "gopher jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu" from your mainframe account.
A menu will appear thatlists various items, such as
"Eisenhower Library" and "Psychology Department".
Navigate to the "University Press" directory (item 7),
then press the return or enter key and you'll go to a menu
that includes "Johns Hopkins University Press Journals" (item 2).
Navigate to this item, press return/enter, and a list of subdirectories
will appear.
Item 4 is "Classics Journals -- JHU Press".
The Arethusa files are within.
via ftp
Enter "ftp jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu" from your mainframe account.
You'll be prompted by the line "USER (identify yourself to the host)"
and should enter "anonymous" in response.
You'll then be prompted for a password.
Enter your user id (not your real password) and press return/enter.
At the subsequent "Command:"prompt, enter
"cd JHU_Press/.zjournals/.class"
(".class" is the classics journals directory).
Then enter "dir" and the names of the files will appear.
The names of the Arethusa files are "jcare-f"
(for abstracts of forthcoming articles)
and "jcare-i" (for index alphabetized by author).
For further details ask:
J. Peradotto
CLAJJP@UBVMS.CC.BUFFALO.EDU
*TAPhA*:
*Romani numen soli: Faunus in Ovid's Fasti*
by
Hugh C. Parker
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
This article is available in all-ASCII version from the
ccat.sas.upenn.edu server,
either by anonymous ftp (directory: /pub/TAPA)
or by gopher (if you use the ccat gopher, the TAPA menu item may
be found under "Electronic Publications"), but if you have "veronica"
on a gopher near you, simply searching for the string TAPA will get
you there. There will be additional articles shortly.
*Perjury and the Unsworth Oath*,
on Homer and the Homeric hymns,
by Cathy Callawya
University of Missouri at Columbia,
This article is now available by
anonymous ftp (directory: /pub/TAPA)
and by gopher (directory: /Library/Journals, Newsletters and
Publications/TAPA) from the server ccat.sas.upenn.edu.
For the time being, we are reluctantly using TLG Beta transcription
for Greek, and this will be a nuisance in some pieces, moreso than
in BMCR. I hope within the next year to have an alternative that
brings Greek to you more expeditiously.
Johns Hopkins University Press reports that several journals
(including *AJPh*) may also be obtained electronically; for
information contact Susan Lewis:
suelewis@jhuvm.hcf.jhu.edu
The table of contents for many Classics journals can also be
called up electronically via the mighty TOCS-IN list. The following
extracted details have appeared elsewhere:
TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Interest to Classicists
Bob Kallet-Marx and Philippa Matheson
TOCS-IN, the project to put on-line current tables of contents
of interest to Classicists, has now been in operation for a year.
[To receive a brief description of the project, read our
informational file, available by gopher or ftp: (3) or (4) below.]
We are slowly but steadily increasing the number of journals we
can cover: We now have tables of contents of 88 journals for
1992 (2102 articles), and our 1993 files are growing apace (599
articles from 49 journals). We must stress, however, that our
hopes to improve coverage are still dependent almost entirely on
volunteer help. A subsequent message will list the journals which
we would like to cover if people are willing to take on the small
burden of entering the TOCs of 1 or 2 annually and sending them
on to Bob Kallet-Marx (RKALLET@HUMANITAS.UCSB.EDU
or @HUMANITAS.BITNET). One of the virtues of TOCS-IN is
speed (relative, of course), and certainly this would be especially
well served if someone at the publishing end of some of the
desiderated journals would kindly send us TOCs around the time
of publication.
Here is a reminder of how to obtain the TOCS-IN files by ftp.
In the file 'inform.toc' is a brief description of the project and the
structure of the files.
If you have an internet address and can use interactive ftp, give
the command 'ftp epas.utoronto.ca.' Then during the login
process give 'anonymous' for your user name, and your full e-
mail address as the password. Then give the following
commands:
fftp> cd pub/tocs-in
ftp> dir
ftp> get inform.toc
ftp> quit
If you have a BITNET or EARN address, the Princeton bitnet ftp
server will do it for you. The data will be sent to you in the form
of e-mail messages. Send a mail message to BITFTP@PUCC,
with no subject and no signature, containing these commands,
each on a separate line.
FFTP epas.utoronto.ca NETDATA
USER anonymous
CD pub/tocs-in
DIR
GET inform.toc
QUIT
The 'dir' command produces a list of the files available and the
'get inform.toc' command will get you a file with a list of the
journals available and the most recent issue of each in the archive.
When you know which files you want, omit the 'dir' command
from the instruc- tions above, and change the 'get' command to
get the files you want. E.g., 'get cla92-1.toc cla92-2.toc arch92-
4.toc rlne92-2.toc' You can have more than one get command in
each session/message, or use 'mget' to specify multiple files:
e.g., 'mget *.toc' or 'mget cla*.toc'.
Note: ftp can do various translations of the data from one machine
tto another. To find out about the available ftp commands: on
internet type the single word 'ftp' as a command and type '?' at
the ftp> prompt; on bitnet, send a message to BITFTP@PUCC
with the single word 'HELP' in it, and you will be sent a list of
the available commands and what they do.
A very convenient menu for Gophering TOCS-IN has been set up
at the U. of Pennsylvania, thanks to J. O'Donnell:
Aim your gopher at 'ccat.sas.upenn.edu' (on some mainframes
you can type 'gopher ccat.sas.upenn.edu' at the command line)
and choose '8.' from the first menu ('Electronic Publications and
Resources'), then '10.' ('Journals in Classics'). [Note that on the
second screen you will also find the Bryn Mawr Classical Review
(2.), articles from the upcoming issue of TAPA (19.), and also
lots of other material of interest to humanists.]
Once you have chosen '10. Journals in Classics', you will be
offered '1. info.toc' (which allows you to browse inform.toc),
and '2. tocs-in/' the directory on epas.utoronto.ca, where all the
toc files are stored. Choose 2., and browse any file (by selecting
the file and typing return) or use any of the other functions
available in your gopher program. These may include
downloading (on some gophers, type 'D', then choose the
method of transmission, e.g., kermit, from the dialog box, and
finally set your PC to receive when prompted), saving the file to
your mainframe account (type 's'), or sending the file to yourself
by e-mail (view it, quit, and type 'm').
Three caveats
a) The gopher menus for TOCS-IN at Penn are still experimental
and may be modified.
b) gophers differ: the procedures for retrieving the files may be
quite different through your gopher.
c) some gophers 'guess' that the archXX-X.toc files are binary
(they are marked in one) -- ignore, they are all normal
ascii text files.
III. DISCUSSION GROUPS
* ROMAN ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
The Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology at
the University of Michigan would like to announce a new Internet
discussion group for , tentatively entitled "ROMARCH".
If you are interested in joining ROMARCH, please respond, by
April 1, _with_ your opinion on whether the list should be
moderated or unmoderated, to:
pfoss@umich.edu
(note: to avoid annoying your colleagues, remember to respond
ONLY TO ME, _not_ to the list or person from whom you
received this notice!) IF there is sufficient positive response, the
discussion group will be set up in early April, and sign-on
instructions will be sent to all respondents, as well as to these lists.
A short prospectus of ROMARCH follows; please forward this
notice to any potentially interested parties (particularly our
colleagues in Italy or other former provinces around the mare
nostrum).
ROMARCH will have as its theme the material cultures of ancient
Italy, from ca. 1000 B.C. to A.D. 500, with a focus on Roman
issues and problems. Both the Italian peninsula and the provinces
of Rome will be considered fair game.
Ideally, this group will foster communication between
professionals, students, and laypersons. It will serve as an
exchange for queries and answers, act as a bulletin board for recent
discoveries and news, be a sounding board for those wishing to
test their ideas or arguments, and become a 'forum' for general
discussions on a wide range of issues.
Whether the group should be moderated (i.e. I collect all messages,
sort through and re-compile them into packages of messages that I
send out to you), or unmoderated (people post directly to the list,
without any editing on my part) is an open question. Please voice
your opinion on this matter when you respond to this
announcement.
_ad hominem_ attacks will be considered in the poorest taste, and
will be roundly condemned if they appear on-list (if the list is
moderated, they will be deleted), but vigorous debate about issues
or evidence is actively encouraged!
In the tradition of successful lists such as 'aegeanet', when queries
are posted to the list, responses should be given off-list, and the
original inquisitor then assumes responsibility for compiling the
useful responses and re-posting them to the list for the benefit of
all.
I look forward to a mountain of positive e-mail responses in the
next week; if you have any further questions about ROMARCH, I
will try to answer them as promptly as possible; please include
them with your response. Apologies in advance to those who
receive multiple copies of this notice. Thank you.
Pedar W. Foss "fors sua cuique loco est"
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
University of Michigan
pfoss@umich.edu
*NUMISM-L (ANCIENT/MEDIEVAL NUMISMATICS)
NUMISM-L is an unmoderated list that provides a discussion
forum for topics relating to the numismatics of Antiquity and the
Middle Ages. It is not a collector's list, nor is it exclusively
scholarly; but it is for serious students of coinage up to c.1454. It
also offers an opportunity to announce the discovery of new coin
hoards, newly discovered varieties (as well as newly identified
forgeries), new books, recent thefts, and upcoming conferences.
Coin shows and coin sales also may be announced, but sales of
specific coins are absolutely forbidden, and anyone offering
specific coins for sale will be summarily removed from the list.
Potential Audience: Historians, Classicists, Medievalists,
Byzantinists, Art Historians, Archaeologists, Economists, and
Numismatists.
To subscribe, send a note to:
LISTSERV@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU
with message:
SUBSCRIBE NUMISM-L your name
List owners:
Ralph W. Mathisen, Dept. of History,
Univ. of S. Carolina, Columbia SC 29208, USA
email: n330009@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu
(for information on technical matters: subscribing, settings, etc.)
William E. Metcalf, Chief Curator,
American Numismatic Society,
Broadway at 155th St., New York, N.Y. 10032, USA
email: wem8@columbia.edu Phone: 212-234-3130.
(for information on editorial and specialized numismatic matters)
* Classics Discussion Group:
carries news, views, and requests for information pertinent to
mainly literary classical Greek and Latin things (though can
have irrelevant material at times).
To subscribe, write to:
classics@u.washington.edu
put nothing on subject line, then as a message:
subscribe CLASSICS your name
NEW FEATURE as of 15/2/95:
You can now get a moderated version of CLASSICS by sending email
to the listowner and asking that your subscription be moved to
the moderated list.
Send email to LWRIGHT@CAC.WASHINGTON.EDU.
The moderated list only sends about 4-5 postings daily from the
regular interactive list. Items forwarded are announcements,
job openings, news items, vel sim. There is no discussion on
the moderated list.
* Classics Bulletin Board:
carries views and requests for information pertinent to most areas
of studies; oriented more for students than the CLASSICS-L
discussion group.
To access, call through usenet:
sci.classics
* Ancient History Discussion Group:
carries news, views, and requests for information pertinent to the
history of the Mediterranean.
To subscribe, write to:
listserv@ulkyvm.louisville.edu
put nothing on subject line, then as a message:
subscribe ANCIEN-L your name
*The Enkidu-l list will be a scholarly discussion located in
cyberspace devoted to methodological issues of studying ancient
texts. While the texts we study will focus upon those produced in
the ancient Mediterranean cultures before 600 CE, any of the
tropes inscribed in those texts and used as cultural icons by later
writers and artists are grist for our mill. Example: Thomas Mann's
Joseph and His Brothers would be considered a midrash on the
Joseph novella in the Hebrew Bible. Speculations about Mann's
possible reasons for using the Joseph material allegorically would
also be appropriate.
Discussions focused upon strategies of literary and cultural theory,
gender and race theory, social theory, and other areas of critical
theory are appropriate. I suspect the list will develop its own
harmony, from the voices of its participants. While the list will be
lightly moderated, the coordinator does not plan to sit on anyone's
keyboard and frown. It is of course not acceptable to practice hate
speech or preach speech. The list will not archive messages, as is
the practice of some other scholarly lists. If there is a topic that
interests a particular participant, s/he can make a personal archive
file. it is hoped that the absence of an official archive will permit
participants to speak freely and to explore new ideas.
There is some hypertext experimentation in our future, if list
members are interested. Suggestion about multimedia and other
technological aids in teaching will be welcome. Syllabi concerned
with technological or computer-assisted innovations in teaching
might be shared.
Enkidu-l will evolve and follow the directions and interests of its
participants. It is hoped that participants will not be lurkers, but
fully engaged voices. Any questions or private concerns may be
voiced to the coordinator:
asherah@leland.stanford.edu.
To subscribe, send a message to:
majordomo@lists.stanford.edu
with the message:
subscribe Enkidu-l
* The Archaeological Institute of America:
maintains an e-mail list on Internet.
The list is open to all, whether members of the AIA or
not. The list is open for discussion of any topic but is especially
intended to foster discussion of technological issues among
professionals. It is a moderated list; the moderator is Harrison
Eiteljorg II.
To sign up for the AIA list, please send a message to:
Listserv@brynmawr.edu
There should be only one line:
subscribe AIA-L your full name (no quotes)
*Archaeology Listerv (ARCH-L@TAMVM1.BITNET)
I have implemented a World Wide Web server that collects
together all the links to internet resources useful to classics and
mediterranean archaeology that I know of. It is a superset of the
gopher server with similar ambitions. The URL of the WWW
server is:
http://rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu/
Client software to access the server from macs is available over
FTP from:
ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu.
The file is /Web/Mac/NCSAMosaicMac.B5.sit.Hqx.
Your mac needs to be connected to the internet to gain full access
to WWW.
The World Wide Web is a distributed information service that
allows full integration of images, sound, movies, etc. in a
hypertext environment. This may sound like all bells-and-whistles
but it is actually well worth checking out.
Sebastian Heath,
Department of Classical Studies,
University of Michigan,
sfsh@umich.edu.
*AEGEANet
John Younger and Paul Rehak announce the creation of
AegeaNet, an e-mail discussion group and news-service. The
purpose of AegeaNet is to facilitate discussion, initiate and test
new ideas, and explore possibilities in the world of the Aegean
Bronze Age. Exploratory ideas, musings and queries, sample
arguments, fully developed theses, and even entire drafts of
papers are welcome; new bibliography, however, will be left to
NESTOR.
To subscribe, mail to:
MAJORDOMO@ACPUB.DUKE.EDU
this message:
SUBSCRIBE AEGEANET
Managers:
John Younger
Paul Rehak
e-mail:
jyounger@acpub.duke.edu
prehak@luccpua.it.luc.edu
* Pacific Archaeology list, PACARC-L:
E-mail address is PACARC-L@WSUVM1.BITNET
* Latin and Neo-Latin Discussion Group:
appears at present infrequently and sometimes in Latin. To
subscribe, write to:
listserver@psuvm.psu.edu
put nothing on subject line, then as a message:
subscribe LATIN-L your name
* THUC-L, the Thucydides discussion list
To subscribe:
send a message to:
listserv@vm.temple.edu:
"subscribe Thuc-l your name."
For further info, write to:
Dan Tompkins
Pericles@astro.ocis.temple.edu
* LT-ANTIQ is an unmoderated list that provides a discussion
forum for topics relating to Late Antiquity (c. AD 260-640). For
the purposes of this discussion list, "Late Antiquity" includes the
Late Roman, Early Byzantine, Early Medieval, and Early Islamic
periods. Geographical coverage extends from western Europe to
the Middle East, and from the Sahara to Russia. Cross
disciplinary interaction is particularly encouraged. Along with the
usual scholarly interchange, users also are invited to post notices
relating to upcoming conferences, new and on-going projects, and
job openings.
Potential Audience: Historians, Classicists, Medievalists,
Byzantinists, Art Historians, Theologians, Archaeologists,
Historians of Religion
*To subscribe, send a note to:
LISTSERV@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU
with message:
SUBSCRIBE LT-ANTIQ your name
For more information, contact:
Ralph W. Mathisen, Dept. of History,
Univ. of S. Carolina, Columbia SC 29280, USA
email: n330009@univscvm.csd.scarolina.edu
* Medieval Text - Philology, Codicology, and Technology etc.
This is a particularly lively and interesting discussion group and
covers most areas of Medieval studies.
To subscribe, write to:
listserver@uiucvmd.bitnet
put nothing on subject line, then as a message:
subscribe MEDTEXTL your name
* Rare Books and Special Collection Forum: we've not seen this
discussion group.
To subscribe, write to:
listserver@rutvm1.bitnet
put nothing on subject line, then as a message:
subscribe EXLIBRIS your name
*DARWIN-L
A Network Discussion Group on the
Hisory and Theory of the Historical Sciences
Darwin-L@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu is an international network
discussion group on the history and theory of the historical
sciences. Darwin-L has been established to promote the
reintegration of a range of academic fields all of which are
concerned with reconstructing the past from evidence in the
present, and to encourage communication among professionals in
these fields. Darwin-L is not restricted to evolutionary biology,
nor to the work of Charles Darwin, but rather covers the entire
range of "palaetiological" sciences from an interdisciplinary
perspective. These fields include:
Evolutionary Biology
Archeology
Historical Linguistics
Paleontology
Textual Transmission and Stemmatics Historical Anthropology
Historical Geology
Cosmology
Systematics and Phylogeny
Historical Geography
Darwin-L welcomes scholarly discussion of any of these fields
with special reference to history, theory, and interdisciplinary
comparison. Appropriate topics might include the development of
historical linguistics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries;
stratigraphic approaches to historical reconstruction in geology
and other fields; the genealogical trees produced by systematic
biologists, historical linguists, and students of textual
transmission; the comparative movements of the nineteenth
century (comparative philology, comparative anatomy,
comparative ethnography); the historical clocks used in
radiometric dating, molecular systematics, and historical
linguistics; and the representation of the past in text and diagrams.
Darwin-L also welcomes queries, notices, course outlines, and
bibliographies relating to the historical sciences.
To join Darwin-L send an e-mail message to :
listserv@ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu
containing this one line:
SUBSCRIBE DARWIN-L John Smith
Replace "John Smith" with your own name, of course, and leave
the subject line of the message blank. This message will be
processed automatically, and you will be signed up and sent some
introductory information. To receive additional information about
Darwin-L without subscribing send the message INFO DARWIN-
L to the same address.
Darwin-L is supported by the Center for Critical Inquiry in the
Liberal Arts and the Department of Biology, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, and by the Department of History and the
Academic Computing Center, University of Kansas. Robert J.
O'Hara (darwin@iris.uncg.edu) is the list administrator.
* ETEXTCTR@RUTVM1
At the first Humanities Computing Summer Seminar, organized by
the Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities in August 1992,
the librarian participants suggested that there be some way for
participants and other librarians actively developing electronic text
centers to come together and share their experiences so that all
could benefit and expand their expertise. As a result of this
suggestion, the ALA ACRL Discussion Group on Electronic Text
Centers was established in January 1993, with Marianne Gaunt
(Associate University Librarian at Rutgers University) as its Chair.
At the first meeting of this group, in June 1993 in New Orleans, a
suggestion was made and accepted to take this further and set up an
electronic discussion list for electronic text centers.
This list has now been established. Its name is ETEXTCTR
(Discussion Group on Electronic Text Centers), and will be
administered from the listserv at Rutgers University,
listserv@rutvm1 or listserv@rutvm1.rutgers.edu. It is a moderated
list, meant to cover broad issues: budgets, acquisitions, cataloging,
public services, management, training and staff development, etc.
but to be focused initially on full-text files that are primarily
monographic in nature rather than e-journals or numeric data files.
If you would like to join in with this discussion, or would like to
learn from the discussion among others, please subscribe to this list
by sending a message to:
listserv@rutvm1 (bitnet address)
OR
listserv@rutvm1.rutgers.edu (internet address)
Leave the subject line blank, and send as the body of the message
the following line:
subscribe etextctr Firstname Lastname
where Firstname is your first name and Lastname is your last
name.
The minutes of the first meeting of the ALA ACRL Discussion
Group on Electronic Text Centers will be posted to this list shortly.
You may respond to these minutes through the list, or post
questions, comments or ideas on anything related to the
development of electronic text centers. Send your postings to:
etextctr@rutvm1 (bitnet)
OR
etextctr@rutvm1.rutgers.edu
If you have any questions about this list, or problems with
technicalities, please write to the moderator, Annelies Hoogcarspel,
at hoogcarspel@zodiac or hoogcarspel@zodiac.rutgers.edu.
* INDOEUROPEAN-L
This list is for discussion and exchange of ideas related to the
historical and comparative linguistics of the Indo-European
languages. Any topic related to the diachronic linguistics of the
Indo-European languages is suitable for discussion. Synchronic
topics are generally best discussed on other lists.
To subscribe to IndoEuropean-L, send the following command to:
listserv@cornell.edu:
subscribe indoeuropean-l
Where is your first name and is your last
name.
If you have any questions about IndoEuropean-L, contact Antony
Green, the list owner, at adg1@cornell.edu.
If you have any questions about the CIT list server, contact the list
server manager, at listmgr@cornell.edu.
* History of Rhetoric Discussion List:
FORMAT:
H-RHETOR is moderated by Gary Hatch of Brigham Young
University (gary_hatch@byu.edu). Posts to the list are collected by
the moderator and distributed in digests daily. Announcements of
interest and notes from the moderator may be sent as singular
messages.
MISSION
H-RHETOR is an international electronic discussion group based at
the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). H-RHETOR will
provide a forum for scholars and teachers of the history of rhetoric,
writing, and communication. There are no geographical or
chronological boundaries.
Subscription is free; subscribers will automatically receive messages
in their computer mailboxes. Messages can be saved, discarded,
printed out, duplicated, or relayed to someone else. It's like a
newsletter that is free and published daily.
The primary purpose of H-RHETOR is to enable historians to
communicate current research and research interests; to discuss new
articles, books, papers, approaches, methods and tools of analysis; a
nd to test new ideas and share comments and tips on teaching.
H-RHETOR will have an editor and an editorial board.
H-RHETOR will try to stimulate dialogues in the discipline among
historians of rhetoric worldwide. It will publish syllabi, outlines,
handouts, bibliographies, guides to termpapers, listings of new
sources and archives, and reports on new software, datasets and
cd-roms. Subscribers will write in with questions, comments, and
reports. H-RHETOR will post announcements of conferences,
fellowships, and jobs. We expect many messages at first will be of
the "how can I do this with my computer?" variety and also "where
can I locate such-and-such?" Please send them in, for someone on
the list will be able to help. H-RHETOR will publish paper abstracts,
conference reports, and book reviews, but it will not be an electronic
journal.
SUBSCRIPTIONS:
To subscribe, send this email message via:
BITNET to LISTSERV@uicvm:
SUB H-RHETOR firstname surname school
If you use Internet instead of Bitnet, the same message goes to:
LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu.
Commercial email operations like CompuServe and America OnLine
have Internet connections from H-RHETOR to your mailbox.
PRODIGY currently lacks an Internet connection. On CompuServe,
our address is:
INTERNET:LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU
CANCELLING A SUBSCRIPTION
To cancel your subscription, send this e-mail message via:
BITNET to LISTSERV@uicvm:
SIGNOFF H-RHETOR
If you use Internet instead of Bitnet, the same message goes to:
LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu.:
NO MAIL
If you want to maintain your subscription but stop the flow of
messages temporarily, send this message via:
BITNET to LISTSERV@uicvm:
SET H-RHETOR NOMAIL
To start the flow of messages after setting NOMAIL, send the
following message to:
LISTSERV@uicvm:
SET H-RHETOR MAIL
If you use Internet instead of Bitnet, the same messages go to:
LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu.
Please set NOMAIL if you will be away from your computer for
more than a few days; otherwise, the mail starts piling up.
* 'UCLA Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies
Newsletter'
Edited by D. Anderson, 2143 Kelton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
90025.
e-mail: dwanders@violet.berkeley.edu
This contains amongst other things a list of e-projects in Indo-
European studies, includingGreek, Latin, Indic, and Indo-
European in general.
*
ALEXANDRIA is a new Internet mailing list for the discussion of
the Western cosmological traditions.
The focus of this symposium is interdisciplinary and it is hoped that
this list will foster discussion in two main areas: historical and
philosophical.
1) HISTORICAL. We welcome postings and discussions which
relate to any of the spiritual, philosophical, and scientific traditions
that flourished in Hellenistic Alexandria: Platonism, Neoplatonism,
Pythagoreanism, the mystery religions, astronomy, astrology,
alchemy, mathematics, harmonics, Gnosis, Hermeticism, Greek
religion and mythology, mysteriosophical traditions, and emerging
Christianity. In an age of scholarly specialization, the emphasis of
ALEXANDRIA is the study of these and other traditions as they
relate to one another within a larger cultural context; the list will
also welcome discussion of later scientific and mystical
cosmologies of the Western world.
2) PHILOSOPHICAL. We would like to recreate the
interdisciplinary, cosmopolitan atmosphere of ancient Alexandria in
a contemporary context and warmly welcome the exploration of
larger philosophical questions: the nature and adequacy of
cosmological models, cosmology and the philosophy of whole
systems, the relations between underlying cosmological models and
culture, art, education, human welfare, and so on.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
To subscribe to ALEXANDRIA, address the message:
subscribe alexandria
to the following address:
majordomo@world.std.com
Note: Do *not* include your name after "subscribe alexandria"
ABOUT THE LISTOWNER
This electronic conference is an outgrowth of the work of Phanes
Press, publishers of books and scholarship on the spiritual,
philosophical, and cosmological traditions of the Western world.
Over the last nine years, Phanes Press has published 35 titles,
many of which are translations of primary texts.
Phanes Press also publishes ALEXANDRIA: THE JOURNAL OF
THE WESTERN COSMOLOGICAL TRADITIONS, a meeting
place for followers of the nine Muses and Seven Liberal Arts. Each
issue is approximately 400 pages in length and published in book
form.
To receive a printed catalogue, email your name and physical
mailing address to:
phanes@aol.com.
The ALEXANDRIA electronic conference comes to you from THE
WORLD online service operated by SOFTWARE TOOL AND
DIE. To receive further information on THE WORLD and their
complete range of Internet services, email: info@world.std.com.
* A number of groups and lists is of interest to philosophers
(the following are fairly randomly extracted, and may/may not be
of use to classicists, from a longer list kindly sent by Steven Clark
of Liverpool University: please contact him for details of others:
srlclark@uxb.liv.ac.uk):
*Noble Savages Philosophers Group:
seems to be very conversational and argumentative, many
members are postgraduate students, not all of philosophy. To
subscribe, write to:
listserv@earn.rpitsvm
put nothing on subject line, then as a message:
subscribe NSP-L your name
* Liverpool Philosophy Group:
discussion and conversation, along with job and conference
announcements. To subscribe, write to Steven Clark:
srlclark@uxb.liv.ac.uk.
* History and Philosophy of Science:
To subscribe, write to:
listserv@ukcc.uky.edu
put nothing on subject line, then as a message:
subscribe HOPOS-L your name
* Philosophy and Religion:
A group at Harvard seems to be meeting with a favourable press;
for information write to:
religion@edu.harvard.harvarda
* MERTON-L:
ormed for substantive discourse on research and scholary inquiry to
create and and develop knowledge about contemplative life.
Discourse is encouraged that is consistent with this purpose, such as:
1. Conceptualization of contemplation
2. Alternative futures
3. Review and critique of theory and research
4. Alternative designs and methodologies
5. Findings, conclusions and implications
6. Research in progress on contemplative life
7. Collaborative research by subscribers
8. Setting the research agenda on contemplative life
9. The Merton Research Institute
10. Relevant announcements, events, and issues
Archives of email and other documents are availabe to subscribers.
To subscribe to MERTON-L, send the following command to:
LISTSERV@BYRD.MU.WVNET.EDU via email:
SUBSCRIBE MERTON-L your first name your last name
* Sophia:
A list for the discussion of ancient philosophy: the field covered runs
(roughly) from Hesiod to Iamblichus, Spain to Palestine.
Questions and preliminary musings are encouraged; moderate
manners are required.
Subscribe in the usual way, by mailing the following one-liner to:
listserv@liverpool.ac.uk:
SUBSCRIBE SOPHIA your name
* An updated version of Shortlist of groups for Religious Studies as
prepared by Michael Fraser of Durham (m.a.fraser@durham.ac.uk)
is now available.
Point your gopher at: delphi.dur.ac.uk 70
or telnet to delphi.dur.ac.uk [IP address: 129.234.4.7].
The Shortlist is in the path:
Academic Departments/Departments
P-T/Theology/Theology and Computers/E-Mail Discussion Groups
For those who keep gopher bookmarks etc, the required information
is as follows:
Name=E-Mail Discussion Groups for Theologians Type=1
Port=70
Path=1/Academic/P-T/Theology/Computing/Lists
Host=delphi.dur.ac.uk
If anyone cannot access telnet or gopher, then Michael Fraser can
still forward the list by email. Subscribers to the Liturgy group will
also have access to the updated file from the Liturgy archives. The
file in this archive and on gopher will be updated as information is
received.
* 1st Century Judaism and Christianity:
A highly active discussion list, with many international scholars
amongst its subscribers; particular interests of the list are the
works of Flavius Josephus and Philo of Alexandria.
To subscribe, write to:
listserv@yorkvm1.bitnet
put nothing on subject line, then as a message:
subscribe IOUDAIOS your name
* Papyrology list:
This list provides a discussion forum for all interested in papyrology
and the history, epigraphy and archaeology of Graeco-Roman Egypt.
To subscribe write the following message to:
listserv@igl.ku.dk
subscribe papy
To send messages for circulation the address is:
papy@igl.ku.dk
To stop your subscription write the following message to:
listserv@igl.ku.dk
signoff papy
* Christianity in Late Antiquity Discussion Group:
ELENCHUS@UOTTAWA.EARN
* History of Astronomy:
HASTRO-L (The History of Astronomy Discussion Group) deals
with matters arising in research and teaching of the history of
astronomy in all cultures, whether Euroamerican, non-Western, or
non-literate; all periods, ranging from prehistoric to
contemporary; and using all approaches, including social history,
the philosophy of science, archeo- or ethno-astronomy, and/or
detailed studies of the technicalities of a period's
observational or mathematical astronomy. It was established at
the request of the History of Astronomy Interest Group at their
June '93 meeting at Notre Dame.
Although HASTRO-L primarily serves those who study and teach
the history of astronomy, we welcome others with a more general
interest in the history of astronomy.
Exactly what the list will become depends on the interests
of the members, but I hope it will provide several services
including informal communications among the members of the
group,announcements of meetings, etc., and the posting of materials
such as syllabi, bibliographies, and software that members may
find useful. Another possibility is posting papers and/or
abstracts before scheduled meetings as a way to improve the
quality of discussion at the meeting.
To subscribe to HASTRO-L:
send the following one line message
to LISTSERV@WVNVM.BITNET
or LISTSERV@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU:
SUB HASTRO-L your name
IV. MISCELLANEA
*Classics and Mediterranean Gopher Service
Using a machine provided by the Department of Classical Studies
at the University of Michigan I have put together a gopher server
that collects together references to internet resources of interest to
classics and mediterranean archaeology. It can be reached by
gophering to rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu on port 70.
This started as something I put together for my own use but I see
no reason not to make it available for all. I would very much
appreciate being told about resources I have missed.
Again the address is rome.classics.lsa.umich.edu, the port is 70.
Sebastian Heath,
sfsh@umich.edu.
*Oriental Institute Anonymous FTP Server
The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, is pleased to
announce the establishment of an Anonymous FTP (File Transfer
Protocol) server: oi.uchicago.edu
The Internet address of the Oriental Institute FTP server is:
oi.uchicago.edu
CONTENTS OF THE OI FTP SERVER:
Our FTP server will provide information and public domain
computer files pertinent to the study of the ancient Near East. It is
divided into several directories according to the organizations
providing the information. Directories may contain subdirectories
depending upon their contents.
HOW TO ACCESS THE OI FTP SERVER:
When logging into the server through your FTP software, type
oi.uchicago.edu as the Host or Hostname. Type anonymous as
the User Id or Username. No Password is required, so leave that
blank. If asked for a Directory, type /pub
An example login session:
Host oi.uchicago.edu
User ID anonymous
Password
Directory /pub
At the present time the OI FTP Site can only be used to retrieve
files that are located in its directories. Users may not place files
on the server through the use of FTP. Additionally, all files are
given Read Only permissions, to guarantee that they remain in
their original form while stored on the server.
Anyone with questions or wishing to post computer files relating
the study of the ancient Near East on the OI FTP Server should
contact either:
John C. Sanders,
Head, The Oriental Institute Computer Laboratory,
The Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL 60637
U.S.A.
Email: jc-sanders@uchicago.edu
Phone: (312) 702-0989
Fax: (312) 702-9853
or
Charles E. Jones,
Research Archivist - Bibliographer,
The Oriental Institute - Chicago.
ce-jones@uchicago.edu
Phone (312) 702-9537
Fax (312) 702-9853
* Perseus List:
Let me just remind all who read this list that there is also the
Perseus list, which is, we hope, like other forms of discussion of
Perseus, enjoying a great change in the general shape of
discussion: rather than seeking only instructions for establishing
the barest functionality of Perseus in their classes, people are
writing to suggest and submit class assignments using Perseus,
and to offer their own experiences with Perseus as a teaching tool
which we at Perseus truly need if we're going to improve it.
So, if you are interested in, use, or have heard of but do not
understand Perseus, please read the list and offer your thoughts.
To subscribe, send an untitled e-mail message to:
Listserv@brownvm.brown.edu
with the content:
Subscribe Perseus
If you have problems with subscribing to the Perseus list, please
write me and I will solve them. If you have problems with
Perseus itself, please write me and I will exploit them
constructively for others, and do my best to offer you some useful
advice in return.
Adam McLean Lewis
adam@ikaros.harvard.edu
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has prepared a short elementary
guide to the Internet called "Big Dummys Guide to the Internet".
It is aimed at those with little or no experience in network
communications. It can be obtained from them by anonymous FTP
at: ftp.eff.org.
An ASCII version is in /pub/EFF/papers/big-dummys-guide.txt.
A Mac hypercard version is in:
/pub/EFF/papers/big-dummys-guide.sit.hqx.
MILLENNIUM 1.20:
In Millennium, Frank Reed has created an elegant and powerful
program calculated to captivate historians. It might be well to begin
with the main screen that forms the central feature of the program.
After a simple loading procedure, one runs MILL, and a map of
Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East (including Iran and
Arabia appears. The definition is excellent, and the colors are strong
and well-selected. The combination makes Millennium an excellent
candidate for classroom projection. The control buttons and their
captions are shaded to give a three-dimensional effect, and the
overall appearance is clean and elegant.
The map itself is a bit like the shape-changers that one runs into in
fantasy fiction; it can assume any of a number of different identities.
One can enter any year and month between A.D. 1000 and 1800, and
the map will reform itself to present an accurate reflection of the state
of affairs during that year. Or one can choose a given date and set
the passage of time in motion, fast or slow, backwards or forwards,
and sit back and watch the borders shift as empires wax and wane
and great powers come and go.
Or, again, if one wishes, one can click on the question box and
choose "What was?" "Where was?" or "Who was?" Each of these
selections calls up a lengthy list of significant events, places, or
people, arranged either alphabetically or chronologically according to
one's preference. After one clicks on a choice, the options present
themselves of reading a brief or detailed answer to the question, or
being transferred to a large map of the region under discussion. One
can choose a region, select two dates, and switch back and forth
between the maps for those dates. The instructional advantages of
these features are obvious to anyone who has tried to direct students
attention from one transparency to the other.
Many will probably find the ability to select the date, drag out the
region that is of immediate interest, adjust its coverage by shifting its
center point, and then printing it out to be Millennium's most
attractive feature. The European historian will never again have to
search around for a transparency covering just the right area at the
right time. Millennium prints out excellent maps, either outline or
dithered, by laser jet printer and, if one is lucky enough to have a
color printer available, produces fine color transparencies.
There are shortcomings, of course. The moving map can be
maddening to watch. One sees a blip in Russia and, by the time one
decides that Ivan III is at work, one has missed Milan gobbling up
adjacent city-states. One can add the names of both cities and
countries, but the two overlays are not too well coordinated. The
country names are too large, and too often lay directly over the name
of an important city. From the college teacher's point of view,
however, the greatest drawback to Millennium lies in the fact that its
terminal dates, A.D. 1000 - 1800, do not correspond to any standard
course. Millennium almost covers the middle ages, but not quite, and
it lack two centuries of covering modern European history. One
would hope that Frank is at work to extend Millennium's coverage
and coordinate the captioning a bit better.
These are small objections, however, when compared to
Millennium's many useful features and the ease with which it may be
used. Frank is to be particularly congratulated on this aspect of the
program's design. The operation of the program's features is almost
intuitive; where it is not, there are convenient on- screen instructions
and, for the person who likes things spelled out, an easily accessible
help file on which to click.
Millennium requires 2.44 Mb of disk space and at least 2 Mb of
RAM. Although it accommodates keyboard commands, mouse
control is by far preferable.
Clockwork Software has made a free demonstration program
available to the public. It may be obtained from MALIN
(ftp ukanaix.cc.ukans.edu/ login: anonymous/ password:
guest/ cd pub/docs/utilities.
Please remember that this file must be transferred and downloaded
in binary.
On FTP, issue the command BINARY before GET; and, if you are
using Kermit software, SET FILE TYPE BINARY before GET.
By
Lynn H. Nelson (Department of History, University of Kansas)
H-NET (HISTORY ON LINE)
ANNOUNCES THE DEBUT OF H-TEACH,
A NEW ELECTRONIC DISCUSSION GROUP
SET UP TO PROVIDE A FORUM
FOR COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY HISTORIANS
TO DISCUSS ISSUES RELATED TO TEACHING.
The primary purpose of H-Teach is to enable historians to easily
communicate about teaching approaches, methods, problems, and
resources. H-Teach will facilitate discussion on the wide range of
policy issues involved in teaching history at the college and
university level. H-Teach will be particularly interested in methods
of teaching history to graduate and undergraduate students in diverse
settings. Special attention will be paid to use of new technologies in
and outside of the classroom. H-Teach will also provide a forum for
exchange of information about specific teaching tools including texts,
videos, exams, and assignments.
H-Teach is edited by Professor Mark Kornbluh of Washington
University in St Louis (H-Teach@Artsci.wustl.edu) and has an
editorial board broadly representative of the state of scholarship.
H-Teach will publish syllabi, outlines, handouts, bibliographies,
guides to termpapers, listings of new sources, library catalogs and
archives, and reports on new software, datasets and cd-roms.
H-Teach will also post announcements of conferences, fellowships,
and jobs. Subscribers will write in with questions, comments, and
reports. H-Teach will carry publisher's announcements of new
books, and we will commission book reviews.
TO SUBSCRIBE TO H-TEACH:
Subscription is free. Subscribers will automatically receive
messges in their computer mailboxes. Messages can be saved,
discarded, copied, printed out, or relayed on to someone else.
To subscribe:
Send this email message via:
BITNET to LISTSERV@uicvm:
sub H-Teach firstname surname, school
If you use Internet instead of Bitnet, the same message goes to:
LISTSERV@uicvm.uic.edu
There are no dues or fees of any kind. Subscribers only need an
address on Bitnet or Internet, which is provided to faculty and
students by campus computer centers. The consultants there, or your
departmental guru, can explain how to send an email message via
Bitnet or Internet.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO H-TEACH:
Contributions can be short questions or long documents. Please sign
your name and email address to each contribution (we will add the
name/address otherwise.) To send them, use one of the following:
(a) Send an email note directly to:
H-TEACH@UICVM.
(b) When you read a message from H-Teach, use the reply command
(enter REPLY, type a response, and SEND it)
(c) You can send a long document via Bitnet to:
HH-TEACH@UICVM
If you use a word processor like Word Perfect or Microsoft Word,
save the document as a plain ascii (or "text" or "dos") file.
Upload it to your mainframe (your departmental guru will explain
how.) Use the "SENDFILE" command to send it to H-Teach.
Please do NOT send binary files or uunencoded Macintosh files, as
we have trouble decoding them.
H-Teach will be moderated to filter out extraneous messages (like
requests for subscription) and items that don't belong on H-Teach.
They may belong somewhere else, or in the moderator's judgment
they do not aid the scholarly dialogue. The moderator will not alter
anyone's meaning (but will, if necessary, add name and e-address).
All contributions to H-Teach will become part of the public domain
and can be freely used, printed, copied or retransmitted if credit is
given to the original author.
H-TEACH FILESERVER:
Documents of interest--bibliographies, book and article reviews,
announcements, teaching materials, and descriptions of tools,
techniques, and computer software and hardware, plus the weekly
files of messages--will be made available from the H-Teach
fileserver. Contributions are welcome, to be sent as files to:
H-TEACH@UICVM.
On electronic publishing, two books (discussed in *BMCR*
4.2.1.) are to be noted:
A. Cummings et al., *University Libraries and Scholarly
Communication: A Study Prepared for the Mellon Foundation*
(Washington, Association of Research Libraries: 1992)
Ann Okerson (ed.), *Visions and Opportunities in Electronic
Publishing: Proceedings of the Second Symposium*
(Washington, Association of Research Libraries: 1993)
[ICON HERE] Return to Contents
Electronic Antiquity Vol. 3 Issue 3 - December 1995 edited by Peter Toohey and Ian Worthington antiquity-editor@classics.utas.edu.au ISSN 1320-3606