Mamma turns up
A few signals to keep an eye out for so you don't miss the moment a god may show up:...
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...
Trickster to the gods
Mercurial, I knew about, and the tricksterishness. But I hadn’t encompassed Mercury’s full spectrum – the god of culture, but...
Time-free flight
Like his daughter Athena, time stops where he’s concerned. Time-free flight – perhaps one day we will master that too,...
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...
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...
Sweet-garlanded lady
None other than Artemis, or Diana, Apollo's twin, and goddess of wild animals and hunting. Struck by Ever Angry Hera (or...
Relief of the gods
A gratitude, therefore, that the whole race or culture has not been wiped out even if the city has been...
Tar-dark hair
A surprising rendition of blackness, until you think of pitch-black. And here is Zeus again having to balance the requests...
Wide-apart eyes
Athena is for me the most memorable goddess, apart from the supreme and supremely bad-tempered Hera. I love the ‘prussic...
Ash-covered Vulcan
Lady Folly blithely explains why it is better to be merry Bacchus (or Dionysius) than any of the more serious...
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