Mythos

Mythos- Stephen Fry

From the foam - Aphrodite - Cyprus

Hecatonchires - hundred hands

Ouranos - Sky God
Kronos- his son
Zeus - The Cretan boy

Jupiter,  Saturn (Kronos), Uranus - Son, Father, Grandfather

Hades - Pluto
Hestia - Vesta
Demeter - Ceres
Hephaestus - Vulcan

Zeus and the honeybee.

Pallas Athena - Minerva
Temple of Athena - Parthenon - Acropolis
Artemis and Apollo - Twins
Phoebus Apollo

Artemis - Diana - Goddess of the Moon - Chaste - Goddess of the hunt

Pleiades - Seven Sisters

Hermes steals Apollo's cattle
Hermes makes and gifts a lyre to Apollo

Megala Kazania on Mount Olympus

Pandora - All-Gifted - Pandora's Jar

Eros (Cupid) and Psyche wedding

Zeus and Io
Io turned into a cow by Zeus
Bosporus - Cow-crossing

Europa and Cadmus - Sister and Brother
Cadmus and Harmonia - Husband and Wife

Dionysus - Bacchus

Dionysus - Son of Zeus and Semele (a mortal)
Zeus reveals his true form to Semele
Maenads - followers of Dionysus

Actaeon turned into a stag by Artemis
Hamadryad - a nymph who lives in a tree
Corvus - the Crow Constellation

Otus and Ephialtes - Giants in the modern sense - sons of Poseidon
Pelion on Ossa

The wheel of Ixion
Niobe's tears. Niobe angers Leto.
Leto - mother of twins Artemis and Apollo

Athena and Arachne - weaving contest
Athena turns Arachne into a Spider

Zeus and Callisto
Callisto turned into a bear by Hera
Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (Great Bear and Little Bear constellations)

St. Cecilia, 1896 Strudwick - John Melhuish

http://www.bridgemanartondemand.com/image/600283/john-melhuish-strudwick-st-cecilia-1896

Paintings From the Borgias Opening Sequence

http://sarahshistoryblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/08/paintings-from-the-borgias-opening-sequence/

The Borgias : Waters of a Spring

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVY4FeltQvo

‘‘Look at you…like Narcissus in the spring waters…you don’t know Narcissus?Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection, in the waters of a spring’

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/c/caravagg/03/21narcis.html - Narcissus - Caravaggio

God she’s beautiful. Jesus Christ. I love it when she kisses Paolo’s reflection.

Taylor Swift - Sparks Fly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKar-tF__ac - Official video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yo429lyuso - Live in Rio

The way you move is like a full on rainstorm
And I'm a house of cards
You're the kind of reckless
That should send me runnin'
But I kinda know that I won't get far
And you stood there in front of me
Just close enough to touch
Close enough to hope you couldn't see
What I was thinking of

Drop everything now
Meet me in the pouring rain
Kiss me on the sidewalk
Take away the pain
'cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile
Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down
Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around
'cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile

My mind forgets to remind me
You're a bad idea
You touch me once and it's really something,
You find I'm even better than you imagined I would be.
I'm on my guard for the rest of the world
But with you I know it's no good
And I could wait patiently but I really wish you would

Drop everything now
Meet me in the pouring rain
Kiss me on the sidewalk
Take away the pain
'cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile
Get me with those green eyes, baby, as the lights go down
Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around
'cause I see sparks fly whenever you smile

I run my fingers through your hair and watch the lights go wild.
Just keep on keeping your eyes on me, it's just wrong enough to make it feel right.
And lead me up the staircase
Won't you whisper soft and slow?
I'm captivated by you, baby, like a firework show.

Taylor Swift

“I think about what I’d think of my decisions when I’m 80 looking back, and it helps me make sound, responsible choices.”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19797669

A Message from the Sea (oil on canvas) - Millais

http://www.bridgemanart.com/asset/123460/Millais-Sir-John-Everett-1829-96/A-Message-from-the-Sea-oil-on-canvas

World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01ndj09/World_War_Two_1942_and_Hitlers_Soft_Underbelly/

David Reynolds presents

'Surrender at Tobruk (Libya)'

Fall of Singapore to the Japanese

Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History - 2. Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians

Lucy Worsley presents

Nov 1688 - William of Orange lands in England with an army

Scrofula = The King's evil

Aged 32, Mary II dies of smallpox

1704 - Anne becomes Queen

Anne had 17 preganancies?

'Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough'

1714 - Queen Anne dies

George II and his son Frederick had a bad relationship

The Pre-Raphaelites - Episode 2 - BBC Four

Hogsmill River in Surrey (Ophelia by Millais)

Lizzie Siddall (aged 19) posed in a tin bath for Ophelia painting.

'The Hireling Shephard' - Hunt

John Ruskin married Effie in 1848.

1855 - Effie marries Millais

'Pretty Baa-Lambs' - Ford Maddox Brown

'An English Autumn Afternoon' - Ford Maddox Brown

Ellen Terry Asleep

http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/ellen-terry-asleep.html

‘I don’t really think I’m that nice. I think I’m probably just a sociopath who understands that niceness sells’ - Steve Carell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlwxET69wrE

Peace - Wraith

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI8vZfG7ILU

Howard Goodall

Howard Goodall's Story of Music - 2. The Age of Invention

Somewhere only we know - Keane

'Arcangelo Corelli'

'Antonio Vivaldi' - Summer - The Four Seasons

Henry Purcell - 'An evening hymn'

Caravaggio - Bridgeman Art

http://www.bridgemanart.com/search?filter_prev_text=carvaggio&filter_text=caravaggio&filter_search_type=new&x=20&y=13

The Temper Trap - Love Lost [Official Video HD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMuuc_pqx2s

The Witches Discover the Wok

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/issuecartoons/2012/12/03/cartoons_20121126#slide=5

Perdita - Sandys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Perdita_Anthony_Frederick_Augustus_Sandys.jpg

Andrew Marr's History of the World - Ep 7

George Stephenson - illiterate until 18?

'Canton'  (China) - trading for tea

Britain grew opium in India to sell to China?

'The Nemesis' - British warship - 'ironclad'

Tolstoy was against serfdom?

Totlstoy freed his serfs.

Oct 1859 - Totlstoy sets up a school to educate serfs?

1860 - Lincoln becomes President

11 Southern States broke away to form the Confederacy

April 12, 1861 - start of the Civil War

January 1, 1863 - Emacipation Proclamation 

April 9, 1865 - The South surrenders

Richmond, Virginia - Confederate Capital

'Sic Semper Tyrannis' - Thus always to tyrants.

1905 - Japan and Russia - war

'Henry Morton Stanley' - first Westerner to chart the Congo River

Leopold II - King of the Belgians

1917 - Germany's new Foriegn Secretary - Arthur Zimmermann - 'one of the most destructive individuals of the 20th century' - Marr

'Zimmermann telegram' - intercepted by Britain

Spring Maiden (1884) - Sir Frank Dicksee

http://www.artmagick.com/pictures/picture.aspx?id=7644&name=spring-maiden