Homer's Iliad "wasn't dead at all," D. S. Carne-Ross writes in the postscript to this book, "it had merely been embalmed. Thanks to (Christopher) Logue's irresponsible behavior, Homer is on the move once more. the genie is out of the bottle." Colored throughout with fire, passion, and sheer muscular strength, the ferocious bite of Logue's verse suddenly breaks, here and there, into a moment of rare fragility and calm—only to be thrown the next instant back to a vast scene of approaching terror, as rank upon rank of chariots and armor appears, with banners flying through the dust of a wide-screen horizon. Logue's version of the sixteenth book of the Iliad, written under the auspices of the Bolingen Foundation, signifies a major advance for the school of structural translation. In his postscript Carne-Ross explains this new school and shows how its concepts apply to Logue's Patrocleia.