All Day Permanent Red (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher Logue
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: From the Homeric age to 2003
- Setting: The Homeric cosmos and the modern world
- Principal Characters: Hector, Athena, Aeneas, Diomed, Lutie, Chylabborak
- Genres: Poetry, Epic, War fiction, Narrative poetry
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Europe or Europeans, War, Kings, queens, or royalty, Gods or goddesses, Oral history, Heroes or heroism, Soldiers, Greece or Greek people, Turkey or Turkish people, Trojan War, Bronze Age
- Locales: Earth, Mythical lands
In 1962, issue number 28 of The Paris Review published Christopher Logue’s initial translation of Homer’s Iliad (c. 725 b.c.e.; English translation, 1616), described in the headnote as “from a new English version of Book Sixteen.” In the “Notes on Contributors,” Logue mentioned that he would “like it to be known that his knowledge of Homeric Greek is negligible,” as much a defiant assertion as an apology for a deficiency, and expressed his gratitude for the “cribs” prepared by two distinguished British scholars. The magazine also contained an interview...
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