Mamma turns up
A few signals to keep an eye out for so you don't miss the moment a god may show up:...
Here comes Hera
One goddess you should never cross, quick to rouse to wrath and terrible in her exactions. Divinely, drop-dead gorgeous, of course.
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Like a baby’s shawl
What a soft, enveloping cloud this must have been, of a gentle pastel hue. Chill autumn morning here, and I...
Wine after washing
A libation to Athene in thanks for her beneficence. But first, a bath and a meal. And then that lovely...
Nestor berates the Greeks
Old Nestor has a few choice words to say to his fellow Greeks for their unwillingness to take on the...
Of wine-blue water
The first time I read of the wine-blue Greek sea, I was baffled. However, I took a second translation to...
Sunlight like birds
This conveys the distant wink and sparkle of sun glancing off a choppy sea surface and appearing, at a distance,...
From Troy to Chicago
Some of the Greek warriors occasionally behave like gangsters, so I liked this 1920s image of a gangster in a...
As quiet as…
Elsewhere Logue uses light as the simile for silence – ‘as quiet as air’ – but I also loved this...
An Antarctic tsunami
I loved the slowly growing momentum of this vast wave, though one has to hope it would never make landfall,...
Hospitality protocol 101
Homer is awash with examples of great hospitality and generosity between hosts and guests, even uninvited ones washing up on...
The bounteous sea
In an age of over-fishing I like these two triologisms suggesting cornucopian fish stocks. Firstly, a reference to the brightness of...
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