Cobalt polar lapis blue
A dazzlingly variegated Greek sky. It was under such a sky, which for me also includes hyacinth blue and lilac,...
Seal-coloured sea
How many colours to describe the sea? I have never come across seal-coloured – a sleek, deep grey-taupe. But search...
Sisal-ball head
Thersites is a stirrer and a loudmouth, insinuating here, undermining there. Toxic team-wrecker, until Odysseus speech-swats him like a bothersome...
Troy the spoiler
Agamemnon appealing to God with a sour grape Greek’s spitting contempt for the Trojans, like a school yard bully’s name-calling...
Handsome-bodied warriors
Ah, it all boils down to wounded pride and vexation over the loss of a woman. Achilles withdraws from the...
As fast as…
You can see the greased lightening serpent-slither whiplash-speed over slippery tiles.
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Shields like clinkered hulls
A marvelous description of the helots’ tightly held, flexible and impregnable shield wall, like the scales of a fish, or...
From Troy to Chicago
Some of the Greek warriors occasionally behave like gangsters, so I liked this 1920s image of a gangster in a...
Like sun on tin
Logue is recreating the Bronze Age and in his version of the Iliad, metal gleams.
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Hard-hearted Hera
Hera is Goddess Numero Una, but for all her beauty and creaminess, she is, as Virgil has it, full of...
Wide-apart eyes
Athena is for me the most memorable goddess, apart from the supreme and supremely bad-tempered Hera. I love the ‘prussic...
Gleaming bronze
So, how did they clean their bronze shields and helmets? I like this impression of gleaming bronze scoured with lime....
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