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Category Archive: Language
A triple bill of myths, ingeniously interwoven into a story with four different metamorphoses – and some superb paintings.
Putting the entire content of Book 1 into a Storyspace/Tinderbox document, to view the Latin and English in parallel.
Who or what exactly is Cupid? How did a mischievous and rather obese infant come to represent love?
Never mock Cupid. As Apollo found it, he’ll get his own back in the cruellest of ways.
One way to produce a hypertext document with parallel views of the text in two languages. This gives the reader the option to see one or both.
Exploring different verbal and visual accounts of the story of the murder of Astyanax during the fall of Troy.
The Greek version of the Flood myth is quite different, and calls on sculpture for another metamorphosis. It also gives rise to the fearsome Python.
Did Jupiter destroy cannibalistic practices, or did a cult of his originate them? Dark doings in this tale of lycanthropy.
In 10 or 20 years time, where will today’s photos and videos be? In an archive? Have you started one yet?
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