Of shooting shadows
This expertly aimed spear casts a shadow as it flies through the air, and its reach is far. Surprising then that...
Baby as bubble
Downright Shakespearean this phrase: pregnancy as belly-bubble on a dame. The implication being I Was Already Doing ABC when you...
Foes and friends
Here, the Trojan hero Hector addresses the Greek Ajax in friendship. There is a number of heart- prefixed triologisms in...
Sweet-garlanded lady
None other than Artemis, or Diana, Apollo's twin, and goddess of wild animals and hunting. Struck by Ever Angry Hera (or...
High-hearted Trojans
A curious triologism, suggesting courage, felicity, or nobility? Given the Greeks beating at the gates, it's unlikely to be about...
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...
Free to go
Please, if you read and enjoy this vivid metaphor, do me the favour of using it at least once so...
Nestor berates the Greeks
Old Nestor has a few choice words to say to his fellow Greeks for their unwillingness to take on the...
Remember to eat
An amazingly intricate way to remind you to eat, no matter what the gods are hurling at you. Artemis is the...
As quiet as…
Christopher Logue’s vivid, muscular version of some episodes in the Iliad abounds with striking metaphors – I noted about 60...
Sunlight like birds
This conveys the distant wink and sparkle of sun glancing off a choppy sea surface and appearing, at a distance,...
Strategic consideration
The wild card of ancient Greek military planning was the existence and randomness of divine intervention. You never knew which...
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