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Category Archive: Language

Love’s Restless Fear: Penelope’s story

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Wife of Odysseus, here are some fine paintings which tell a little of her side of the story. How she not only remained faithful, but some of the challenges she faced.

April 23, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Painting the Impossible: Taste

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Trying to elicit a specific taste seem over-ambitious, but why can’t great paintings at least make us feel peckish?

April 22, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Unicode spoofing: when an аррӏе isn’t an apple at all

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The word looks identical, but uses different Unicode characters. How can you tell the difference? There are important security implications, and more.

April 22, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 16 – Venus and Mars, Leucothoe and Clytie

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Three stories in a single telling, about Helios/Sol, the personification of the Sun. His role in the adultery of Venus and Mars, and his two lovers and their bitter rivalry.

April 19, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Pride and Petulance: How one woman almost spared Troy

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The anger of Achilles almost brought the Greek war against Troy to a grinding halt. But is Homer’s account fair, or was there more to it?

April 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Painting the Impossible: Touch

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Coming in several modalities, touch is taken for granted, and least used in the arts. Paintings of and about touch are spectacular and ingenious, but there is ample scope for more.

April 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Mother of the Muses: Mnemosyne

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She gets but a single line in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and has been painted only rarely, and then usually in a supporting role.

April 14, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Introducing Rosettavert: first beta-release of a text encoding conversion tool

Do you want to convert files using non-Unicode text to modern format? Or between the 144 different encodings supported by iconv? Here’s a tool to make that easy.

April 13, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 15 – Pyramus and Thisbe

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Not a Greek myth, this tragic love story is the ultimate ancestor to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, and other major works. Here are the best paintings.

April 11, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Spouse-swapping, matricide, and Harry Potter

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Betrothed to Orestes, Hermione was forcibly removed and given to Pyrrhus. Later, Orestes murdered his mother. So why does Hermione appear in Harry Potter?

April 9, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

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