text:  It is just as easy for him to transport himself in fancy to the summit of Olympus to the palace of Jupiter and to the Council or to the Banquet of the Gods or to the deep sea-caves where Thetis sits with her companion nymphs in the hall of her father the sea-god Nereus--as it is to remove himself from the festal hall where the poet is singing to him and to the other guests away to the camp of the Greeks or to the court of Priam or to the bower of Andromache