Abstract
In comparing extracts from Christopher Logue's War Music with other modern English versions of the Iliad, this article considers his use of contemporary details including elements from popular culture and present-day technology, and contemporary techniques such as cinematic slow motion. The comparisons reveal a poetry in which Homer is reinscribed into modern consciousness: larger-than-life goddesses and heroes become possible, and practices such as animal sacrifice are made meaningful. Even in his creative manipulations, Logue's characters are consistent, and the narrative coherent. Close attention is paid to the effects of metre, allusion, textual play, expansions, condensations, and omissions.
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