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A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention

Picture the east Aegean sea by night,
And on a beach aslant its shimmering
Upwards of 50,000 men
Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.

Your life at every instant up for / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips, writes Christopher Logue in his original version of Homer's Iliad, the uncanny translation of translations that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as the best translation of Homer since Pope's (The New York Review of Books).

Logue's account of Homer's Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer's tale of warfare, human folly, and the power of the gods in language and verse that is emphatically modern and possessed of a very terrible beauty (Slate). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the Iliad to completion, but enough surviv

War Music

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 10 January 2017
      ISBN-13 9780374536817
      978-0374536817
      ISBN-10 0374536813

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A remarkable hybrid of translation, adaptation, and invention

      Picture the east Aegean sea by night,
      And on a beach aslant its shimmering
      Upwards of 50,000 men
      Asleep like spoons beside their lethal Fleet.

      Your life at every instant up for / Gone. / And, candidly, who gives a toss? / Your heart beats strong. Your spirit grips, writes Christopher Logue in his original version of Homer's Iliad, the uncanny translation of translations that won ecstatic and unparalleled acclaim as the best translation of Homer since Pope's (The New York Review of Books).

      Logue's account of Homer's Iliad is a radical reimagining and reconfiguration of Homer's tale of warfare, human folly, and the power of the gods in language and verse that is emphatically modern and possessed of a very terrible beauty (Slate). Illness prevented him from bringing his version of the Iliad to completion, but enough surviv

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