The Husbands (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher Logue
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Time of Work: The year before the fall of Troy, historically dated at 1184 , but presented here with frequent proleptic references and inclusions
- Setting: Troy, the ancient city at the Dardanelles in what is now northwestern Turkey
- Principal Characters: Helen, Menelaos, Paris, Agamemnon, Achilles
- Genres: Short fiction, Poetry
- Subjects: History, Language or languages, Mythology or myths, Love or romance, Poetry or poets, Beauty, Adventure, Greek or Roman times
- Locales: Troy, ancient, Turkey
Christopher Logue has filled much of his career as a poet with his eccentric recastings of Homer’s Iliad (c. 800 b.c.). He began this lifetime project of distilling Homer’s epic poem in 1962, on commission from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Donald Carne-Ross of the BBC had envisioned a radio play based on the Patroklos books of the Iliad (16-19). These are among the most moving of Homer’s poem, for they focus on the protégé of Achilles who dies wearing his master’s armor and mistaken for him by the Trojan Hektor, since Patroklos displays all the...
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