Your day will be like...
the directionless whirl of the sea, waiting for Zeus to send its waves flying.
Iliad 14.16-20
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Your day will be like...
the directionless whirl of the sea, waiting for Zeus to send its waves flying.
Iliad 14.16-20
Your day will be like...
Ares himself, strutting into war.
Iliad 7.207-13
Your day will be like...
Hector, bringing down men in their numbers, like the west wind stirring waves into spume.
Iliad 11.304-9
Your day will be like...
the rending and splitting of timber as east and south winds compete, bring oak and ash crashing together.
Iliad 16.765-71
Your day will be like...
a gore-drenched lion, fresh from feeding on cattle, chest and cheeks all blood-soaked.
Odyssey 22.401-6
Your day will be like...
a ravenous lion, kept at bay by men and their javelins, so that it cannot feast upon their oxen.
Iliad 11.548-57
Your day will be like...
devouring fire, encouraged by breezes, stripping a mountainside, or like barley threshed and stripped.
Iliad 20.490-9
Your day will be like...
the thawing of snow on high mountains, brought by the west wind, melted by the east, filling rivers.
Odyssey 19.205-9
Your day will be like...
two wives quarrelling in the street, bringing up home truths and making up lies about each other.
Iliad 20.251-5
Your day will be like...
Artemis, descending a mountain to enjoy the hunt of wild boar or swift deer with her nymphs. Her mother Leto looks on in love.
Odyssey 6.102-9
Your day will be like...
a lion leaping onto the neck of an ox as it grazes, snapping it.
Iliad 5.161-5
Your day will be like...
a level playing field, level like a widow's scales as she weighs out her wool, working to feed her children.
Iliad 12.432-8
Your day will be like...
a stampede of cattle, startled by the sudden onslaught of two wild beasts.
Iliad 15.323-6
Your day will be like...
a shepherd trying to keep a lion from his flock, but he wounds the lion and makes him angrier. The sheep are done for.
Iliad 5.136-43
Your day will be like...
wasps, tormented over time by children at their nest on a roadside, so that they now attack every passer-by.
Iliad 16.259-67
Your day will be like...
the shining evening star, bright in the night's dark.
Iliad 22.317-20
Your day will be like...
a shroud of snow, covering everything from mountain to harbour when Zeus stills the winds.
Iliad 12.278-89
Your day will be like...
a man yearning for dinner, after a long day’s ploughing with wine-dark oxen. Lame in his knees he heads home.
Odyssey 13.31-5
Your day will be like...
a hunstman setting his sharp-fanged hound on some boar or lion.
Iliad 11.292-5
Your day will be like...
a goatherd looking out at a vast cloud coming at him over the sea, pushed there by the west wind. It's blacker than pitch and brings with it a whipping whirlwind.
Iliad 4.277-82
Your day will be like...
swarms of bees, thronging from a hollow rock over Spring flowers, darting here and there.
Iliad 2.87-93
Your day will be like...
a wave crashing on a headland, driven by the south wind, a jutting spur that is never without attack from the waves.
Iliad 2.394-7
Your day will be like...
sleep, broken by the restlessness of dogs who hear a wild beast nearby while they guard your flock.
Iliad 10.183-9
Your day will be like...
gazing into the distance, as far as any can see across the wine-dark water.
Iliad 5.770-2
Your day will be like...
a hunting hound, snapping at the heels of a wild boar or lion, watchful in case the beast turns on him.
Iliad 8.338-42
Your day will be like...
a heap of dried chaff, burst and scattered in all directions by the blast of a stormy wind.
Odyssey 5.368-70
Your day will be like...
when someone hides a ember in ashes on some remote farm, far from others, preserving that spark of fire for later.
Odyssey 5.488-91
Your day will be like...
a level chalkline, drawn by an Athena-inspired, expert carpenter.
Iliad 15.410-3
Your day will be like...
a portentous star, shining and bringing a sign for sailors or soldiers, sparking as it goes.
Iliad 4.75-80
Your day will be like...
a bright flare, sent up in the dead of night from an island city under attack, calling for allies to come to its aid.
Iliad 18.205-14