Imagery of Touch
The narrator uses the observer in his depiction to illustrate the sense of touch to the reader. He says that Mycenae town might look small and inconsequential; however, an observer can have a personal feeling and sense that the town is powerful based on the arguments of the poets and traditions surrounding it. He writes:
“Now Mycenae may have been a small place, and many of the towns of that age may appear comparatively insignificant, but no exact observer would, therefore, feel justified in rejecting the estimate given by the poets and by the tradition of the magnitude of the armament."
The Imagery of Corinth
As the story progresses, the imagery of sight becomes prevalent when the narrator talks about the preparedness of Corinth to invade the Corcyraeans. The sense of hearing is appealed to the reader when Corcyraeans hears of the Corinth plans and they gather their forces to counter-attack if necessary. The narrator writes:
“When the Corcyraeans heard of their preparations they came to Corinth with envoys from Lacedaemon and Sicyon, whom they persuaded to accompany them, and bade her recall the garrison and settlers, as she had nothing to do with Epidamnus.”
The Imagery of Sight
The narrator describes the Mycenae city in a manner that paints a picture of it to help the reader see how it looks like from his imagination. He says that the city is undeveloped with no buildings and it does not have modern offices but instead is composed of villages. He writes:
“ Still, as the city is neither built in a compact form nor adorned with magnificent temples and public edifices, but composed of villages after the old fashion of Hellas, there would be an impression of inadequacy.”
The Imagery of Hearing
The sense of hearing is appealed to readers when the Ambraciots and the Corinth army matches by land to Apollonia. The Corcyraeans hears the matching and arrival of the settler troops and surrenders the economy to them. The narrator writes:
“When the Corcyraeans heard of the arrival of the settlers and troops in Epidamnus, and the surrender of the colony to Corinth, they took fire.”
