Book Four (13 March 2023)
Size, Colour, Attracted Sidelong glances In locker showers From boys used to drop trou, Oxford cloth ubiquity. A Goddess Empowered Diomedes Speared dead Pandaros, Heaved stone at Aineias, Whom Aphrodite swept off. Third Lecture, Lineage For male offspring Of gods, goddesses, Notable fathers, sung Before obliteration. Bus Discharged Visiting Team, wearing their Navy blazers, school Rep ties: Connecticut Prep school, varsity players. Pawns Of Zeus, Battlefield Paired mortals, gods: Diomedes with Athena; Aineias, Apollo; Hektor, Ares. Fourth Lecture, Ideals of Manhood shared: thoughts Articulated; All actions disciplined; A martial education. On Homefield, Opposing Players streamed in, Homogeneous Wall of blue eyes, blond hair, Pristine blue, white uniforms. Host, And guest, Their fathers' Past roles invoked, Diomedes, and Glaukos declined to fight Each other, exchanged armour. Fifth Lecture, Within walls, Handma...