War Music (1981)

by Christopher Logue (Translator), Homer (Author)

Series: Logue's Homer (1)

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War Music is Christopher Logue's version of Books 16-19 of Homer's Iliad. Logue is author of Patrocleia, a rendition of Book 16 of this poem, much praised by Henry Miller and others for its attempt to remain faithful to the essential Greekness of the old poem, yet draw the characters with clarity and vitality.… (more)

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War Music: A Version of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue

War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad (Omnibus ed.) by Christopher Logue

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Patrocleia of Homer: A new version by Christopher Logue

Pax: Book XIX of the Iliad by Christopher Logue

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The Iliad by Homer

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Logue's version of books 16-19 of Homer's Iliad. Should not be combined with a later edition, also titled "War Music," which contains additional material.

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War Music is Christopher Logue's version of Books 16-19 of Homer's Iliad. Logue is author of Patrocleia, a rendition of Book 16 of this poem, much praised by Henry Miller and others for its attempt to remain faithful to the essential Greekness of the old poem, yet draw the characters with clarity and vitality.

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