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Flat-footed view

Nicolson's writing helped cure me of any 'flat-footed view' I may have had of the Bronze Age, spinning its warriors...

An enigmatic statement, perhaps born of the difficulty of pinning down Odysseus' journey on a real map, although there is...

In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, Louis Golding sailed passed Ithaca. Minds were on other things...

This poem has been in my mental saddlebags for about a quarter of a century. I can't remember how I...

If ever there was an argument for steering a middle course, it is the horrific pair of sailor slayers, Scylla...

The prelude to the monstrous-destructive obstacles Odysseus has to overcome, or bypass, to reach home.

'After the monstrous-beautiful Sirens, Odysseus...

I appreciated Nicolson's summing up the twin terrors as two aspects of the female threat.

'After the monstrous-beautiful Sirens, Odysseus...

The durability of things and of cultures intrigues me; and particularly when those artefacts are themselves physically fragile or insubstantial.

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