Achilles’ face
This is an intriguing description of a face – I see a chalk-white face with a lion’s mane of golden...
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...
Strategic consideration
The wild card of ancient Greek military planning was the existence and randomness of divine intervention. You never knew which...
A tongue twister triologism
I liked this punchy, tongue-twisting image of remote and mountainous Macedon.
‘He will get home. That is to say,...
Flailing blades and razored vanes
This reminds me of pictures of ancient war chariots in children’s history books, with blades poking out of the wheel...
Hard-hearted Hera
Hera is Goddess Numero Una, but for all her beauty and creaminess, she is, as Virgil has it, full 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...
Cloud-shadowing mountains
What a landscape to overcome if you want to reach Pythia – mountains shadowed by clouds and deep sea troughs.
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Poikilometis
Nicolson refers to this word, used to describe Odysseus, and translates it as ‘dapple-skilled, with so much woven into him...
Ajax and Alamein
Logue’s rendering of Homer is powerful because he makes it immediate, either by transporting you through sheer force of description...
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...
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