Wide-apart eyes
Athena is for me the most memorable goddess, apart from the supreme and supremely bad-tempered Hera. I love the ‘prussic...
As distinct as…
I like this geometric juxtaposition, though I might have made the distinction sharper: as distinct as circle and square? As...
As fast as…
You can see the greased lightening serpent-slither whiplash-speed over slippery tiles.
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Mamma turns up
A few signals to keep an eye out for so you don't miss the moment a god may show up:...
Swift-footed Achilleus
One of many stock Homeric epithets, apparently used as mnemonic and prosodic padding, to help with recital from memory and...
Body-gulping Charybdis
If ever there was an argument for steering a middle course, it is the horrific pair of sailor slayers, Scylla...
Close as …
If you can withstand the shock of the thock of the arrow passing through eyes, the simile ‘as close as...
For love of Ajax
Nine words, three sentences, and you see Ajax before you and how he is seen by thousands of Greek soldiers....
Images of war
Again, reducing human carnage to an image of barbecue leftovers.
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Free to go
Please, if you read and enjoy this vivid metaphor, do me the favour of using it at least once so...
Solti’s stick
In a tick, you are taken from ancient Troy to a contemporary concert hall, and the magical, electrifying instant when...
Horn-curved cattle
Homer describes these cattle and some 3,000 years later, yesterday, I passed them grazing in a field in Switzerland as...
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