The Iliad or the Poem of Force

genre:  essay
main subject:  Iliad

"The Iliad, or The Poem of Force" (French: L'Iliade ou le poème de la force) is a 24-page essay written in 1939 by Simone Weil. The essay is about Homer's epic poem the Iliad and contains reflections on the conclusions one can draw from the epic regarding the nature of force in human affairs. Weil's work was first published in 1940 under the title L'Iliade ou le poème de la force in Les Cahiers du Sud. Cahiers has been described as the only significant literary magazine available in the French free zone when the essay was first released. The first English translation was done by Mary McCarthy and published in the New York–based journal Politics in 1945. The essay has since been re-published many times. As of 2007, it was the only one of Weil's writings on ancient Greek literature to be commonly used in university courses on the Classics. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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