Memorial: An Excavation Of The Iliad

Memorial: An Excavation of the Iliad

To retrieve the Iliad's energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses by turns on Homer's extended similes and on the brief biographies of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably - and unforgotten - in the copiousness of Homer's glance.