Plucking chickens in Australia
One of the inventive elements of Logue’s metaphors is the way he mixes up eras, blithely planting a country called...
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...
Cobalt polar lapis blue
A dazzlingly variegated Greek sky. It was under such a sky, which for me also includes hyacinth blue and lilac,...
Athene’s disguise
Here Zeus spurs Athene to intervene in the Trojan war, and she descends to earth in the guise of a...
The wave foreseen
A magnificent image of a proud and then crashing wave, thundering up a shaken coast, and used to signify the...
An Antarctic tsunami
I loved the slowly growing momentum of this vast wave, though one has to hope it would never make landfall,...
Half a prayer
A perfect example of mercurial Greek god behaviour. No rhyme or reason, I grant this, I grant that, I refuse...
Helen has second thoughts
Helen regrets her elopement with Paris after seeing him nearly killed by the husband she abandoned, only surviving because a...
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...
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...
From Troy to Chicago
Some of the Greek warriors occasionally behave like gangsters, so I liked this 1920s image of a gangster in a...
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...
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