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...
Nestor berates the Greeks
Old Nestor has a few choice words to say to his fellow Greeks for their unwillingness to take on the...
Faces like NO ENTRY signs
Another example of Logue’s easy use of contemporary images to bring us up close and personal to the battle beach...
The walls and towers of Troy
Three triologisms demonstrating the strength of the protective masonry encasing Troy; the first being spoken by Agamemnon, chief among the...
Wine after washing
A libation to Athene in thanks for her beneficence. But first, a bath and a meal. And then that lovely...
Fortune’s favour
This reminds me of an anonymous Elizabethan verse which I cite from memory:
'Lift up thy heart and courage...
Sweet-running river
Flowing like the sweet-running river it evokes, a meandering metaphor for Hector's strength and movement, likened to a thoroughbred horse...
Free to go
Please, if you read and enjoy this vivid metaphor, do me the favour of using it at least once so...
Voice communications
Consider the vital role of the herald before mechanical forms of broadcast, and how important the quality and strength of...
Sunlight like birds
This conveys the distant wink and sparkle of sun glancing off a choppy sea surface and appearing, at a distance,...
Insubstantial rock-hard durability
The durability of things and of cultures intrigues me; and particularly when those artefacts are themselves physically fragile or insubstantial.
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Beware the rip-fanged hound
A terrifying image of Odysseus in pursuit of prey, like a flesh-tearing dog on the trail of a defenseless deer...
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