Greek Mythology

Briefs, October 17, 2012

17 Oct 2012

Baidu debuts security software in Thailand

2:22AM

The Song of Achilles

10 Jun 2012

The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
Bloomsbury (e-book)

5:10PM

Battle of the weavers

4 Jun 2012

Arachne brushed away a spider crawling along the top of her loom and watched it scuttle across the floor to safety behind the oil jars in the far corner of the room.

4:40PM

Ridley returns to sci-fi

3 Jun 2012

Alien and Blade Runner are considered classic sci-fi films. Both were helmed by director Ridley Scott. So it may come as a surprise that Scott has entirely abandoned the genre ever since - that's...

4:36PM

The Nine Muses

3 Jun 2012

The Nine Muses
Director: John Akomfrah

4:31PM

Leftover logic

1 Jun 2012

Pascale Mussard hates waste. From a tender age, the great-great-great-granddaughter of Thierry Hermes, founder of luxury brand Hermes, has had trouble throwing things away.

4:20PM

Opinion

Attempts to diversify China's reserves have been a disaster

4:45AM

Howard Winn

China is like the EU; provinces are its member states

5:26AM

Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus never grew tired of making music. He played the lyre and sang better than any other young man on the island of Thrace. Every morning, he would wake up with the sun and begin to make music...

3:28PM

A real-life Cinderella story

It took Athena Tso and Daniel Wong a while to warm to each other, but the day he asked her to take their relationship further, Daniel already had a happy ending in mind.

2:45PM

DJ puts her own Parisian spin on party at Hennessy NYX Electrosonic bash

Parisian DJ-producer Chloe Thevenin has been behind the decks of some of Europe's leading clubs, such as Le Pulp in Paris. She took the stage at Kitec in Kowloon Bay on Saturday to spin for the...

1:25PM

Dandy & Dapper

I want a great hat for the summer but I'm a bit sick of the straw panamas, trilbies and fedoras every hipster and his brother have been wearing. Could I get away with one of those hats that come...

12:09PM

Demigod save us from this mess

Trailers often stitch unrelated lines together to suggest one conversation, fooling viewers into believing it's a single piece of dialogue between characters.

11:39AM

Perseus rides again

Greek tales of heroic battles between mortals, immortals and demigods have been popular since ancient times. They are the stuff of legends; even today's students take to them in classes on Greek...

10:32AM