Logue chooses to retell some of the most evocative episodes in the Iliad, including the death of Patrochus and the fateful return of Achilles to the fight, which sealed the doom of Troy.[...]
"Setting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, "
"Emptying her blood-red mouth--set in her ice-white face--"
"Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: "
""Kill Kill for me "
"Better to die than live without killing ""
"Who says prayer does no good?"
Christopher Logu[...]
This text contains the first three volumes of Christopher Logue's recomposition of Homer's "Iliad - Kings", "The Husbands" and "War Music".[...]