Wide-apart eyes
Athena is for me the most memorable goddess, apart from the supreme and supremely bad-tempered Hera. I love the ‘prussic...
Fortune’s favour
This reminds me of an anonymous Elizabethan verse which I cite from memory:
'Lift up thy heart and courage...
Clear-voiced heralds
Logue’s vivid rendition of several episodes in the Iliad pulsates with fresh phrasing and is a trove of triologisms. Here,...
Hard-hearted Hera
Hera is Goddess Numero Una, but for all her beauty and creaminess, she is, as Virgil has it, full of...
Handsome-bodied warriors
Ah, it all boils down to wounded pride and vexation over the loss of a woman. Achilles withdraws from the...
Ajax and Alamein
Logue’s rendering of Homer is powerful because he makes it immediate, either by transporting you through sheer force of description...
Impartial as…
A beautiful simile for impartiality, like a sunbeam, shining equally on all that fall within its light. Like many of...
Achilles’ face
This is an intriguing description of a face – I see a chalk-white face with a lion’s mane of golden...
Hospitality protocol 101
Homer is awash with examples of great hospitality and generosity between hosts and guests, even uninvited ones washing up on...
Seal-coloured sea
How many colours to describe the sea? I have never come across seal-coloured – a sleek, deep grey-taupe. But search...
Diplomacy and dogs
This rich if none too favourable description of the Greeks – ‘hatched from the slag we cast five centuries ago’...
An Antarctic tsunami
I loved the slowly growing momentum of this vast wave, though one has to hope it would never make landfall,...
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