I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might hav….

I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do..

In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pou….

I feel like I could eat the world raw..

When I first started studying Greek, one of my absolute favorite parts was realizing that so many English words had these old, secret roots. Learning….

It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was almost like tears, in how swiftly it came. But it was neither of those, ….

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?.

and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious.

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon..

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature..

Life for women in ancient Greece was hard - you had to fight for every inch of ground you got. Both Thetis and Briseis are strong, passionate women a….

There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is ….

My mind is filled with cataclysm and apocalypse. I wish for earthquakes, eruptions, flood..

A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry wa….

I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with fre….

In making Achilles and Patroclus lovers, I wasn't trying to speak for all gay men, just as when I write straight characters, I don't claim to speak f….

The ship's boards were still sticky with new resin. We leaned over the railing to wave our last farewell, the sun-warm wood pressed against our belli….

I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need to attend your councils. I—' 'No. The Phthians wil….

I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me. If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there wer….

Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generat….

People are people, whatever age they're living in. The circumstances may have changed - we go to war with planes instead of chariots - but experience….