A bulwark against brain-washing
Listening time: under 9 minutes.  Sadly, some things in the state of the world are driving me to spend more...
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...
Wonder-working juice
A Greek myth concerning a wonder-working juice which confers immortality. However, when asking that Tithonus be granted eternal life they...
Sun-darkening arrows
Describing the shower of arrows at Thermopylae falling so thick and fast that they blot out the sun's light. Leonidas,...
Fast and strong
Three triologisms to describe the fine, fast, strong ships that brought the Greeks to Troy. I particularly like 'sea-wandering'. May you be...
Podcast review – Adam Nicolson’s The Mighty Dead
Listening time: 8 minutes.
Enjoy this celebration of a favourite book by a favourite author about a favourite...
Relief of the gods
A gratitude, therefore, that the whole race or culture has not been wiped out even if the city has been...
Of temples and cathedrals
An unusual analysis of the difference between temples and cathedrals, which seems obvious once it has been pointed out.Â
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A fine wine
What a wonderful scene, a simple lunch washed down with a local wine the colour of molten amber, and intriguingly,...
The lobsters of Skopelos
Hyperbole, nothing like it when suitably blatant, creative and outrageous.Â
You couldn't possibly eat one of these, only engage them...
Sheer from the sea
In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, Louis Golding sailed passed Ithaca. Minds were on other things...
Cobalt polar lapis blue
A dazzlingly variegated Greek sky. It was under such a sky, which for me also includes hyacinth blue and lilac,...
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