I have just realised I posted a photo of an apple in my last blog with no explanation. To briefly explain… it isn’t any old golden apple, it is one of three dropped by Hippomenes in the race against Atalanta, the apples were Atalanta’s undoing as by marrying Hippomenes Atalanta was subjected to an unfair punishment as his wife, being turned into a pair of lions. However, you can’t blame her for being distracted by shiny things, Atalanta wasn’t the first and will not be the last.
Atalanta is also the title in the second of the short films I will be showing in my Degree Show.
