Mr Twombly is a well-read painter, and his work is saturated with references to the Greek myths, and to poets such as T.

ECONOMIST: American contemporary art

Tearing through Greek myths in God of War I, seeing the lush jungles of the original Uncharted, the amazement of battling with your favorite Nintendo characters in Super Smash Bros. 64.

FORBES: The Simple Joy of a New IP

He went to Oxford to read French and became a teacher, first in France and then on the Greek island of Spetse, where he studied the ancient myths and grew to love what he always called agria Ellada, the wild Greece.

ECONOMIST: John Fowles