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.
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Two turned to stone: Battus for betraying Mercury, and Aglauros for obstructing Mercury’s courting of Herse, and her jealousy.
How Acontius won his bride, and how a portrait of her by an obscure Dutch painter may be part of a series. Mysteries solved, perhaps?
No less than 6 different stories, 4 transformations, 5 wonderful paintings, all from less than 150 lines of Latin verse.
Rape, ejection from society, transformation into a bear, then into a constellation: poor Callisto, but some superb narrative paintings.
One of the most dramatic and vivid myths, causing a ‘Great Fire’ which matches the Flood. Superb paintings from Rubens, Poussin, Moreau.
Adding images to the parallel hypertext, tidying its Map view up, and more. Includes a tip for better debugging and reader testing.
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.
Working out why Time Machine backups go wrong isn’t necessarily that different from unravelling classical mythology. In some ways.
