Wood and war
I liked these two woody similes for war and death, the first to convey the din and crash of battle,...
Voice communications
Consider the vital role of the herald before mechanical forms of broadcast, and how important the quality and strength of...
High-hearted Trojans
A curious triologism, suggesting courage, felicity, or nobility? Given the Greeks beating at the gates, it's unlikely to be about...
Chopping and changing
I like how Logue places the words so they don’t flow smoothly but themselves wallop, slap back, chop and change,...
Lake-eyed queen
Beautiful description of the limpid, seductive eyes of the gorgeous-ghastly goddess Hera, wife of God, with whom she tussles and...
As fast as…
You can see the greased lightening serpent-slither whiplash-speed over slippery tiles.
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Half a prayer
A perfect example of mercurial Greek god behaviour. No rhyme or reason, I grant this, I grant that, I refuse...
Pah to the Iliad
Tom dismisses one of the world's greatest epics, a 3,000 year old classic of war, on the grounds that its...
Modern weapons meet ancient war
Logue regularly brings modern imagery into an account of ancient war. The Trojan war was a Bronze Age fight, yet...
Sweet-running river
Flowing like the sweet-running river it evokes, a meandering metaphor for Hector's strength and movement, likened to a thoroughbred horse...
Beware the Idomeneus spear
Famed with good reason - see his bringing another warrior to meet his 'dark-named destiny'. However, the most graphic...
Swift-footed Achilleus
One of many stock Homeric epithets, apparently used as mnemonic and prosodic padding, to help with recital from memory and...
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