Solti’s stick
In a tick, you are taken from ancient Troy to a contemporary concert hall, and the magical, electrifying instant when...
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...
An Antarctic tsunami
I loved the slowly growing momentum of this vast wave, though one has to hope it would never make landfall,...
As fast as…
You can see the greased lightening serpent-slither whiplash-speed over slippery tiles.
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Hopelessly insane: Homer fans
Here Christopher Logue highlights the sheer vital durability of Homer and the magnitude of such sustainability, kept alive through a...
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...
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...
That’s no way to speak to God
Here we have Helen’s cuckolded husband Menalaus screaming at God in the most colourful terms. I like the idea of...
Hard-hearted Hera
Hera is Goddess Numero Una, but for all her beauty and creaminess, she is, as Virgil has it, full of...
As distinct as…
I like this geometric juxtaposition, though I might have made the distinction sharper: as distinct as circle and square? As...
Beware the plate-faced warrior
Something about this image that suggests implacable, closed, helmeted.
‘Then through that colonnade, Hector of Troy,
Towards his mass...
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