Poikilometis
Nicolson refers to this word, used to describe Odysseus, and translates it as ‘dapple-skilled, with so much woven into him...
Stars like apples
Distant stars appearing so close you could reach up your hand and pick them, like apples in a tree. One...
Mamma turns up
A few signals to keep an eye out for so you don't miss the moment a god may show up:...
Fortune’s favour
This reminds me of an anonymous Elizabethan verse which I cite from memory:
'Lift up thy heart and courage...
And this is my epic…
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
A marvelous account of a butcher bursting in to Lawrence Durrell's office during...
Pard-like stubble
I can only imagine this refers to a patchy or spotted colour combination, as 'pard' means leopard or panther, or...
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...
Pickled inside and out
Here is a novel form of the elixir of youth - no magic potions, just preserved in brine and other...
Relief of the gods
A gratitude, therefore, that the whole race or culture has not been wiped out even if the city has been...
Polyskarthmos
‘Used to describe Myrine, a dancer, ‘much-skipping’ as the word means literally, even ‘very frisky’, as it is a phrase...
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...
Barefoot erudition
Patrick Leigh Fermor wore his vast learning lightly, as real scholars often do. Here he more than meets his match...
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