War Music by Christopher Logue
In ancient Achaea, as night falls, your goat-herding family and neighbours assemble by fire to listen to a visiting minstrel sing about the demise of heroes. Or maybe you’re a resident of the city-state of Athens, listening indoors to the gods’ faults, which are exactly like those of your own nobility. Perhaps you live on Leuce Island in the Black Sea and yearn for a paean to menein, a term that expresses wrath and is only used by gods, with the exception of Achilles, the patron saint of the sect you follow.
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Homer’s Iliad is featured in War Music by Christopher Logue, which was released in 1981. It’s a contemporary, cinematic retelling of the Greek epic that succeeds in recasting Homer’s battles for readers of the twenty-first century and suggests—as does Jones—that all wars are the same wars.
The final collection of Christopher Logue’s Homer, War Music, is a spectacular artistic feat since it is both a brand-new English poem and one that is firmly rooted in the Iliad’s story and characters. This is a refraction of Homer’s epic through the lens of Logue’s extraordinary genius, not a translation of Homer’s epic. This is poetry in verse at its finest; it is metrical without becoming boring, and free-flowing but structured, and the metaphors are vivid and original, enlivening the story every time.
This book should be purchased if you are unfamiliar with Logue’s Homer because it compiles all of the earlier works in chronological sequence. if you have previously read War Music, Cold Calls, and The Husbands. The new content in this edition might seem a little bare-bones to you.
