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...
Shields like clinkered hulls
A marvelous description of the helots’ tightly held, flexible and impregnable shield wall, like the scales of a fish, or...
A tongue twister triologism
I liked this punchy, tongue-twisting image of remote and mountainous Macedon.
‘He will get home. That is to say,...
Faces like NO ENTRY signs
Another example of Logue’s easy use of contemporary images to bring us up close and personal to the battle beach...
As quiet as…
Elsewhere Logue uses light as the simile for silence – ‘as quiet as air’ – but I also loved this...
Like sun on tin
Logue is recreating the Bronze Age and in his version of the Iliad, metal gleams.
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As timid as…
A memorable and graphic (if unsympathetic) way to convey timidity and fearfulness. You can see a cowering dog, skitting about...
Flailing blades and razored vanes
This reminds me of pictures of ancient war chariots in children’s history books, with blades poking out of the wheel...
The icy scabs of the earth
A depiction of the north and south ice caps, as 'icy scabs at either end of the earth'. And then...
Stunt-hoop tambourines
The timbre and beat of martial music as the Greek states gather behind Agamemnon for an almighty war.
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Baby as bubble
Downright Shakespearean this phrase: pregnancy as belly-bubble on a dame. The implication being I Was Already Doing ABC when you...
To charm, to change …
Odysseus is a tricky hero, part noble, upstanding and brave, part slippery, trickery, too-clever-by-half. He is a compelling orator, and...
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