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The fact that even Homer described all this in a flatter manner hardly disturbs Arrowsmith's co-editors, who include D. S. Carne-Ross, 40, onetime BBC editor, and John Sullivan, 32, a transplanted Oxford don who recently won a $1,000 prize as the best teacher at Texas. They view translation as reseeing and refeeling of structure and meaning. Carne-Ross argues: "The translator's job is to get inside the text, to work his way through the words and relive the informing experience which lies behind them." Poet Logue has done just that for The Iliad, says Carne-Ross, and so proved that "it wasn't dead at all, it had merely been embalmed. Thanks to Logue's irresponsible behavior. Homer is on the move once more. The genie is out of the bottle."