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Category Archive: Language

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 10 – Cadmus and the Dragon’s Teeth

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The slaying of a dragon/serpent, and transformation of its teeth into warriors, make for five superb paintings spanning most of the story.

March 15, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 9 – The abduction of Europa

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Less than 30 lines of the book are devoted to the abduction of Europa, which has become its best-known and most-often painted story.

March 10, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Adding Timing Features to an App: Tinderbox and Storyspace

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A detailed tutorial showing how you can time events, such as moving from one note to the next, using free and simple tools.

March 10, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

The Best of Both Worlds: making hypertext for both Tinderbox and Storyspace

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The idea was to create a single document which would get the best out of both apps. Here is my solution, and the file to download.

March 9, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 8 – Turned into stone, Mercury and Aglauros

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Two turned to stone: Battus for betraying Mercury, and Aglauros for obstructing Mercury’s courting of Herse, and her jealousy.

March 7, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 7 – The Raven and Crow, and more

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No less than 6 different stories, 4 transformations, 5 wonderful paintings, all from less than 150 lines of Latin verse.

March 3, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Parallel Text in Tinderbox 7: Porting Metamorphoses Book 1

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Getting parallel text working using Tinderbox 7’s new Composite notes, to open access to Ovid’s story of myths.

March 2, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 6 – Jupiter and Callisto

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Rape, ejection from society, transformation into a bear, then into a constellation: poor Callisto, but some superb narrative paintings.

February 28, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 5 – Phaëthon, the Heliades, Cycnus

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One of the most dramatic and vivid myths, causing a ‘Great Fire’ which matches the Flood. Superb paintings from Rubens, Poussin, Moreau.

February 24, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Parallel hypertext: Storyspace metamorphosed 3

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Adding images to the parallel hypertext, tidying its Map view up, and more. Includes a tip for better debugging and reader testing.

February 21, 2017 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

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