Diplomacy and dogs
This rich if none too favourable description of the Greeks – ‘hatched from the slag we cast five centuries ago’...
Hard-breathing horses
Caught up in the maelstrom of battle between the Greeks and Trojans, these horses have just seen their master massacred,...
As quiet as…
Elsewhere Logue uses light as the simile for silence – ‘as quiet as air’ – but I also loved this...
From Troy to Chicago
Some of the Greek warriors occasionally behave like gangsters, so I liked this 1920s image of a gangster in a...
A shire-sized dust-sheet
The tearing of a dust-sheet isn’t an obvious sound to describe the dis-scabbarding of a Greek sword, and then Logue...
Wasps quick-bending
One of the many stretch metaphors used by Homer. When you see a comma followed by 'as ...' it can...
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...
The walls and towers of Troy
Three triologisms demonstrating the strength of the protective masonry encasing Troy; the first being in the mouth of Agamemnon, chief...
Dark-named destiny
Another term for death, the fate of Asios who, horse-proud, insisted on driving his chariot into the fray where he...
Bright and brighter
The Trojan Hector goes on the attack with his beautiful horses, bright-maned, a complement to the bright-patterned shield of Odysseus.
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In praise of the Greeks
Three triologisms describing the Greeks convey something expansive and vital, though the same could be said of the Trojans. However,...
High-hearted Trojans
A curious triologism, suggesting courage, felicity, or nobility? Given the Greeks beating at the gates, it's unlikely to be about...
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