Well-lubricated gods
Wise, merry Folly laughs off the boozy behaviour of tanked-up gods, treating them like so many party-animal adolescents.
From Erasmus'...
Storm-driven sea
Odysseus grappled with Poseidon's fury and his storm-driven seas. Its unrelenting onslaught is one of the most terrifying aspects Homer...
Strategic consideration
The wild card of ancient Greek military planning was the existence and randomness of divine intervention. You never knew which...
Wide-apart eyes
Athena is for me the most memorable goddess, apart from the supreme and supremely bad-tempered Hera. I love the ‘prussic...
Hard-featured god
What a curious image, especially the breath hanging about the god's forehead.
May you be spared the hard-featured god, even...
Time-free flight
Like his daughter Athena, time stops where he’s concerned. Time-free flight – perhaps one day we will master that too,...
Tar-dark hair
A surprising rendition of blackness, until you think of pitch-black. And here is Zeus again having to balance the requests...
Hard-hearted Hera
Hera is Goddess Numero Una, but for all her beauty and creaminess, she is, as Virgil has it, full of...
Thunderbolts are go (I)
The gods learn the price of rebellion against the supreme one. Hughes' re-telling of Ovid's tales has some spectacular thunderbolt...
Ash-covered Vulcan
Lady Folly blithely explains why it is better to be merry Bacchus (or Dionysius) than any of the more serious...
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...
Half a prayer
A perfect example of mercurial Greek god behaviour. No rhyme or reason, I grant this, I grant that, I refuse...
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