Grey-eyed Athena
Much is made of Athena’s beautiful eyes; elsewhere they have a ‘prussic glare’ and are ‘wide-apart’.  Remember, Athena is the...
Cloud-shadowing mountains
What a landscape to overcome if you want to reach Pythia – mountains shadowed by clouds and deep sea troughs.
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Lake-eyed queen
Beautiful description of the limpid, seductive eyes of the gorgeous-ghastly goddess Hera, wife of God, with whom she tussles and...
Solti’s stick
In a tick, you are taken from ancient Troy to a contemporary concert hall, and the magical, electrifying instant when...
As timid as…
A memorable and graphic (if unsympathetic) way to convey timidity and fearfulness. You can see a cowering dog, skitting about...
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...
Cobalt polar lapis blue
A dazzlingly variegated Greek sky. It was under such a sky, which for me also includes hyacinth blue and lilac,...
Clear-voiced heralds
Logue’s vivid rendition of several episodes in the Iliad pulsates with fresh phrasing and is a trove of triologisms. Here,...
Fortune’s favour
This reminds me of an anonymous Elizabethan verse which I cite from memory:
'Lift up thy heart and courage...
As quiet as…
Elsewhere Logue uses light as the simile for silence – ‘as quiet as air’ – but I also loved this...
For love of Ajax
Nine words, three sentences, and you see Ajax before you and how he is seen by thousands of Greek soldiers....
A shire-sized dust-sheet
The tearing of a dust-sheet isn’t an obvious sound to describe the dis-scabbarding of a Greek sword, and then Logue...
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