Beware the plate-faced warrior
Something about this image that suggests implacable, closed, helmeted.
‘Then through that colonnade, Hector of Troy,
Towards his mass...
Handsome-bodied warriors
Ah, it all boils down to wounded pride and vexation over the loss of a woman. Achilles withdraws from the...
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...
High-hearted Trojans
A curious triologism, suggesting courage, felicity, or nobility? Given the Greeks beating at the gates, it's unlikely to be about...
Wasps quick-bending
One of the many stretch metaphors used by Homer. When you see a comma followed by 'as ...' it can...
Of leaderless leadership
'Leadership' litters newspapers and networks such as LinkedIn, with people claiming to embody it, or vaunting the leadership of others....
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