History & The Arts
Perseus: what’s in a name?
...Burne-Jones included the scene in a series of 10 paintings on the Perseus myth, commissioned by Lord Arthur Balfour in 1875. Over the past few decades, though, it is cinema which has done most to keep Perseus centre-stage, notably in the two Clash of the Titans films (1981 and 2010, along with the 2012 sequel, Wrath of the Titans). Each film follows the rough outline of...