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Digging up the past
Apr. 20th, 2004 06:50 pmThe bright side of keeping a LJ? I can easily check what was happening on a particular date and know if I had a doctor appt. It still means having to dicker around with the idiot insurance people, but at least I have the vaguest notion what it is about!
New York Times had a lovely long article on the search for that Persian fleet I've been so fascinated with. The print version includes illustrations of triremes, including possible differences between Greek and Persian ones. The Herald Tribune has a version of the same article. I'm still amused by the comment made by Robert Hohlfelder from University of Colorado-Boulder in an earlier article about the octopus hoarding artifacts - "I've always loved to eat octopus, but I'm going to forgo it the rest of my days, because you're only supposed to eat colleagues in department meetings," Hohlfelder joked. "They're really quite good collectors, and often the piles they build up around their nests give us the first clue that wreckage is underneath."
I'm almost finished with Fudoki, which is a Good Thing since it's supposed to go back to the library today. Erp. This weekend will be the dreaded Arlington Library book sale. Then hopefully I can attack Fitcher's Bride. My non-fiction reading has been a fascinating book called Mysteries of the Snake Goddess by Kenneth D.S. Lapatin about the Boston Snake Goddess and its possibly shady origins. It fits in unfortunately with Arthur Evans and his Knossos reconstructions. It will be useful prep work for the online class I caved and signed up for, an "Archaeology for Amateurs" class with the focus on Minoan and Cretan archaeology.
EDIT: Oh, yay! I could renew Fudoki after all. I thought it was in their nonrenewable group.
New York Times had a lovely long article on the search for that Persian fleet I've been so fascinated with. The print version includes illustrations of triremes, including possible differences between Greek and Persian ones. The Herald Tribune has a version of the same article. I'm still amused by the comment made by Robert Hohlfelder from University of Colorado-Boulder in an earlier article about the octopus hoarding artifacts - "I've always loved to eat octopus, but I'm going to forgo it the rest of my days, because you're only supposed to eat colleagues in department meetings," Hohlfelder joked. "They're really quite good collectors, and often the piles they build up around their nests give us the first clue that wreckage is underneath."
I'm almost finished with Fudoki, which is a Good Thing since it's supposed to go back to the library today. Erp. This weekend will be the dreaded Arlington Library book sale. Then hopefully I can attack Fitcher's Bride. My non-fiction reading has been a fascinating book called Mysteries of the Snake Goddess by Kenneth D.S. Lapatin about the Boston Snake Goddess and its possibly shady origins. It fits in unfortunately with Arthur Evans and his Knossos reconstructions. It will be useful prep work for the online class I caved and signed up for, an "Archaeology for Amateurs" class with the focus on Minoan and Cretan archaeology.
EDIT: Oh, yay! I could renew Fudoki after all. I thought it was in their nonrenewable group.
