7.0436 Rs: Arcadia; Maps; Fonts; Ads; Interdisciplinarity (7/152

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 24 Jan 1994 19:15:28 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0436. Monday, 24 Jan 1994.


(1) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 21:37:05 CST (17 lines)
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Arcadia

(2) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 09:54:15 CST (10 lines)
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Arcadia again

(3) Date: 21 Jan 94 16:47:02 EST (39 lines)
From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown)
Subject: Digital Maps summary

(4) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 18:49:50 PST (19 lines)
From: "Don W." <webbd@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU>
Subject: Egyptian hieroglyphs font

(5) Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 16:50:02 -0600 (CST) (24 lines)
From: HOKE ROBINSON <ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 7.0432 More on Advertising and Humanist (4/124)

(6) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 17:10:41 EST (15 lines)
From: Joe Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM>
Subject: Re: 7.0432 More on Advertising and Humanist (4/124)

(7) Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 20:50:31 -0500 (EST) (28 lines)
From: John Younger <jyounger@acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: 7.0403 Interdisciplinarity (1/19)

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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 21:37:05 CST
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Arcadia

I have the definite feeling that the word Arcadia was more in use on the
continent in England. At the risk of telling you what you already know:
Bruno Snell has a nice chapter on Arcadia as an ideal landscape in his The
Discovery of Mind (Torchbook) (has nothing of interest to the Renaissance,
except for the origin of the topos). He refers, of course, to Panofsky's
famous "Et in Arcadia ego," Cassirer Festschrift, a locus classicus.
Hellmuth Petricioni, "Das neue Arkadien," Antike und Abendland 3 (1948),
187-200, discusses later uses of Arcadia, as does also H. Wendel, Arkadien
im Umkreis bukolischer Dichtung in der Antike und in der franzoesischen
Literatur. Giessener Beitraege zur romanischen Philologie, 1933. Of
course, the historical dictionaries (OED, Grimm, etc.) are of some use, but
not much.
Jim Marchand.
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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 94 09:54:15 CST
From: "Jim Marchand" <marchand@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Subject: Arcadia again

I just popped my handy-dandy MLA CD-ROM into the reader and noted that it
has 137 hits for Arcadia (more for adjective, etc.), most of which are on
Sidney and Sannizaro, but some on Lope and a few seeming to be surveys of
the topos in the Renaissance. Looking those up and combing through them
ought to yield something.
Jim Marchand.
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Date: 21 Jan 94 16:47:02 EST
From: Malcolm.Brown@Dartmouth.EDU (Malcolm Brown)
Subject: Digital Maps summary

A week or two ago, I posted a plea for information on the state of digital
maps for use in research and instruction. I promised to summarize the
replies I received.

Several respondents (Michael Metzger, Roger Brisson, Ed Haupt, Nicholas
Whyte) mentioned the program Millenium, published by Clockwork Software.
This program was apparently praised last August in a discussion on the
MEDIEV-L list. All other comments were also laudatory. I contacted
Clockwork and found that the program currently runs only under Windows. This
is tough luck for me, since Dartmouth is a Mac school. But I was told that a
Macintosh version was under development and might be ready next summer.

Clockwork will send a demonstration disk with its Windows version. They can
be reached at (312) 281-3132 - PO Box 148036 Chicago IL 60614. I've not yet
set eyes on the program, but have requested a demo disk.

Other than that, digital maps seem to be, as Donald Spaeth phrased it, a
"real problem." Most other resources have been created to solve a specific
need; there's no "TEI" for digital maps and apparently no "OTA" for maps
either.

For example, Roy Wolfe reports that a collection of 18th and 19th century
maps of Paris are available at Columbia available in .gif format. These can
be downloaded from their gopher. There are also some limited collections
available through America On-Line (in the Mac Graphics and PC forums), but
these are limited and vary widely with respect to quality.

Up to now, this is all the information I've received. Don Spaeth was kind
enough to forward my original note to CTICH's History-All
list. If additional responses come in, I'll send summaries to Humanist.

Many thanks to those who took the trouble to reply to my note!

Malcolm Brown
Dartmouth College
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 18:49:50 PST
From: "Don W." <webbd@CCVAX.CCS.CSUS.EDU>
Subject: Egyptian hieroglyphs font

Some time ago a query appeared concerning a Macintosh
font that would print Egyptian hieroglyphs. I posted
a query to Info-Mac (Info-Mac@sumex-aim.Stanford.Edu)
and have received a few replies offlist. Two of them
mentioned:

Dubl-Click Software, Inc.
18201 Gresham Street
Northridge, CA 91325
(818) 349-2758

It appears uncertain that this information is still current.
In any case, it's a lead.

Don W. (DonWebb@CSUS.Edu)
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Date: Fri, 21 Jan 1994 16:50:02 -0600 (CST)
From: HOKE ROBINSON <ROBINSONH@MEMSTVX1.BITNET>
Subject: Re: 7.0432 More on Advertising and Humanist (4/124)

A suggestion:
I don't know how other people's systems work, but when I connect to my
e-mail account, I go automatically into a directory ("folder") called
NEWMAIL. When I type in DIR, I get a list of all the messages I've received
since last time I cleaned out NEWMAIL. I can delete messages unread; the
difficulty is that it's not always clear where the message came from, or
what it's about.
My directory headings are: #, FROM, DATE, SUBJ.
I always know when a message is from HUMANIST, since FROM is always
EDITORS@BROWNVM. (The same, incidentally, can't be said for PHILOSOP,
whose messages appear to have come directly from their author.) The
subject line gives about 30 characters on screen.
If other people's directories are similar, how about requiring that
advertising have a subject line beginning AD: or ADS:. Then I can browse
through them if I have time, or delete them unread if not, secure in the
knowledge that I'm deleting an ad. (Another alternative is to have a
separate HUMANIST-ADS list to which ads are sent, and to which one can
subscribe or not, as one chooses.)
Reactions?
-- Hoke Robinson, Philosophy, Memphis State
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Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 17:10:41 EST
From: Joe Raben <JQRQC@CUNYVM>
Subject: Re: 7.0432 More on Advertising and Humanist (4/124)

Perhaps one way out of the dilemma of humanists who want to be kept in-
formed of new products but not be deluged with junk mail is the method
adopted for SCHOLAR. Succinct one-sentence descriptions of new products
are sent periodically to subscribers, along with instructions for retriev-
ing more substantial information, including the address of the vendor.
Only individuals interested in the product will download the full note.
The residual benefit is that the full information remains permanently
available in the databases at CUNY and Hopkins for anyone who discovers
a need for it long after the original notice appeared.

Joseph Raben
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 1994 20:50:31 -0500 (EST)
From: John Younger <jyounger@acpub.duke.edu>
Subject: Re: 7.0403 Interdisciplinarity (1/19)

>
> Has the increasing use of electronic communication affected the
> boundaries of your discipline?

I subscribe to several BBS in Classics and have started one for Aegean
Bronze Age archaeology. We now have 171 subscribes as of now. Besides
keeping in touch with new developments in the field instantaneously, I
find myself coming up with new ideas.

As a gay political activist on Duke campus, I've created a e-mail
discussion group in G&L classical studies, and subscribe to various G&L
BBS which also has allowed me to examine GL course syllabi and with these
in mind, design a GL introductory course that is running for the first
time this semester -- I keep in contact with the graduate instructors and
my committee through e-mail.


John G. Younger
Professor of Classical Archaeology
Dept of Classical Studies
Duke University
email jyounger@acpub.duke.edu