In his brilliant rendering of eight books of Homer's "Iliad, Logue here retells some of the most evocative episodes of the war classic, including the death of Patroclus and Achilles's fateful return to battle, that sealed the doom of Troy. Compulsively readable, Logue's poetry f…
Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad has been called the best translation of Homer since Pope's (The New York Review of Books). Here in All Day Permanent Red is doomed Hector, the lion, slam-scattering the herd at the height of his powers. Here is the Greek army risin…
A new installment of the author's rewritten translation of Homer's Iliad covers the first clash of the armies, in which the doomed Hector achieves the height of his powers during the rise of the Greek army.
"Helen, the world's most beautiful woman, the wife of Lord Menelaos of Sparta, left Greece in the company of Paris, the son of Priam, King of Troy. To repossess her, a thousand Greek ships sailed to Troy. Nine years have passed. The Greeks have not achieved their aim. Indeed, af…