Biblical Update

MY biblical-battles project is taking a backseat this coming week as I have made another trip to Bavaria, although I had nearly finished painting a second unit of Egyptian chariots before I left home.

Meanwhile I have been reading.

Slingshot 339 and Paul Cartledge's Thebes

The March/April issue of Slingshot has some interesting articles, but is marred by having been spell-checked but not properly proofread (the introduction to the Japanese-archery article being a particularly bad example).

I am also still struggling to like the new-style large print and space-wasting, but perhaps other readers appreciate this (the print size, if nothing else).

The Thebes book is sub-titled The Forgotten City Of Ancient Greece, which is nonsense but perhaps was insisted on by the publisher (Picador).

Then again maybe it was how the author sold the book in the first place.

I found it an enjoyable read, except where Cartledge goes off at a tangent discussing Freudian pyschoanalysis and devoting far too many pages to what appear to be his pet subjects of art and poetry, much of such content in the book having seemingly little connection with the eponymous - a favourite Cartledge word - city.