A Greek showed up
Listening time: under 5 minutes. From Steinbeck's masterful and lively account of travelling in the Soviet Union with...
Argumentative authenticity
You can't help admiring people said to be as authentic as argumentative, including in themselves, and in their art and...
Diplomacy and dogs
This rich if none too favourable description of the Greeks – ‘hatched from the slag we cast five centuries ago’...
Dark-named destiny
Another term for death, the fate of Asios who, horse-proud, insisted on driving his chariot into the fray where he...
Bronze-armoured Achaians
The Trojan war was a Bronze Age affair, magnificently evoked in different sea-surrounded places by two books of Adam Nicolson....
Stunt-hoop tambourines
The timbre and beat of martial music as the Greek states gather behind Agamemnon for an almighty war.
‘Immediately
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Like sardine from a tin
This horrifyingly vivid image is made more painful by its casual tone, with a boy likened to a sardine.
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Zeus dispenses with practicalities
Zeus here neatly rebuffs his daughter Athene's requests. I like his suitably arch reaction, which puts all supplicants in their...
Of leaderless leadership
'Leadership' litters newspapers and networks such as LinkedIn, with people claiming to embody it, or vaunting the leadership of others....
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