I highly recommend Christopher Logue's book, War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad. Homer's The Iliad is one of my favorite works of prose, and I've read several versions, such as Lattimore's and some other guy's. But Logue's is particularly engaging. His heroes and battles, his pressed-upon Zeus and his conniving Goddesses, and his peculiarly self-aware Helen and his lascivious Aphrodite are wonders.
One interesting difference btwn his version and others I've read is that Logue puts thoughts into his characters' minds, giving them a self-awareness I've not noticed in other versions, but which I highly appreciated in his. I'm too lazy to find a good example of this right now, you'll have to take my word. But I do have an example of his striking imagery:
Running her tongue around her strawberry lips
While repositioning a spaghetti shoulder-strap,
The Queen of Love, Our Lady Aphrodite,
Touching the massive Greek aside with one
Pink Fingertip, and with her other hand
Lifting Lord Paris up, big as he was,
Lacing his fingers with her own, then leading him,
Hidden in wings, away.
Christopher Logue recently died and The Economist ran an obituary on him on their back page. Good for me, not so good for him. Reading the obituary, I knew his version of The Iliad was something I'd have to read, and, so, two weeks later, I had the book! (I'm in Moscow, two day shipping from Amazon is only a theory.)
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