Matters Arising

I let myself get dehydrated at the weekend and this is the result (although it's actually my ankle). (public domain picture of James Gi...

The story goes that Mercury stole Apollo's cattle, but was seen by an old man called Battus. Mercury bribed the old man to keep quiet wi...

Ovid's next story (with a series of digressions) is the story of the birth of Aesculapius, the god of medicine. His mother, Coronis, wa...

I was looking for material on Coronis, when I found MadInkBeard's strip cartoon serial inspired by the Metamorphoses. I haven't ha...

I've been meaning to look this up for some time and finally got round to it this morning. A couple of weeks ago, we sang "When I Su...

The APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) picture for 18 July shows Jupiter over the ruins of Ephesus. The pictures on this site are always ...

(Picture by Torsten Bronger via wikipedia, used under GNU Free Documentation License ) As I said in a previous post , Jupiter's attempt...

I must admit I had never heard of Irena Sendler until she was mentioned in this week's editorial on Anglicans Online . She deserves to ...

To summarise the story of Callisto: Callisto was a companion of the virgin huntress, Diana. Jupiter saw her, and disguising himself as D...

The Toynbee Convector draws our attention to a YouTube video of London in 1903 . It turns out that it's part of the British Film Instit...