Your duty is To stir and charm the wonder of the world. And so it is. A godlike thing. The water's net across the water's floor. In Logue's version, the erotic suffices as a cause for war, and the conflicting intentions of human and gods are represented as something more compelling than a classroom rubric.
Poetry vibrates between two extremes.
At one pole, the poem is a poem because of what it knows. At the other, the poem is poetry because of how it sounds. The knowledge and the music, inseparable in the original, become visible choices in the translation. Swift and direct, Homer has both knowledge and music. Poetry's material is the word, and its whole formal and conventional apparatus exists only to preserve and transmit a living voice.