Seen through water
The impact of Gray’s sword causing it to bend in the air as it would appear to bend if submerged...
Hate-honed swords and other battle gear
Everything a battle-scarred Swede could need: fine-forged mesh to protect him from other people's hate-honed swords, and a great-shafted spear...
Of shooting shadows
This expertly aimed spear casts a shadow as it flies through the air, and its reach is far. Surprising then that...
Shields like clinkered hulls
A marvelous description of the helots’ tightly held, flexible and impregnable shield wall, like the scales of a fish, or...
Grape-gorged carronade
A vivid evocation of boyhood heroic fantasies.  When the young boy is told off or otherwise put down by the grown...
Modern weapons meet ancient war
Logue regularly brings modern imagery into an account of ancient war. The Trojan war was a Bronze Age fight, yet...
Blank-eyed face
A shield features a terrifying Gorgon's head to project fear and dread onto any assailant. Elsewhere, that same blank-eyed stare...
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...
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