Beaconsfield, Tasmania

May 26 2022 · tasmania travel-writing

The Beaconsfield Returned Services League Park has a WW1-era howitzer, a skate park, and a retired Australian Army leopard tank. The howitzer is aimed at cars driving along the main road, while the tank ranges an empty lot. Fifty years after manufacturing the howitzer the Germans also made the tank. It’s possible they also made the skate park but in my research I couldn’t find any evidence. Within firing range of the tank is the the Jubilee Bakery where you can get a pretty good meat …

Cradle Mountain

May 13 2022 · tasmania landscape-photography

Tasmanian Landscapes

May 8 2022 · tasmania landscape-photography monochrome

Pandarus in The Iliad

May 5 2022 · poems philosophy hellenic books stories the-iliad

The Iliad has many central heroes: Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor, Diomedes, Achilles, Priam, Hector, Paris, the list goes on. Then there are hundreds of named characters who get introduced in the Catalogue of the Ships or the Trojan Battle Order, and then meet a quick death at the hands of a central hero.

Pandarus is a character that falls between these two extremes. He’s a nobleman fighting on the side of Troy who we’re first introduced to in the Trojan Battle Order of Book II.