Working out why Time Machine backups go wrong isn’t necessarily that different from unravelling classical mythology. In some ways.
Ovid
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.
Not an easy story to paint, Ovid’s clear account has been largely ignored. Because it is now too absurd to show?
His last masterpiece has some of the richest symbols, icons, and decoration of all his works. A detailed look at his finale.
An unusually moral story of the classical gods; superb paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Elsheimer, and others.
More myths in a single painting than you’ll see anywhere else. But do they come together to form another narrative?
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