Iliad or the Poem of Force
by Simone Weil · first published 1985
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…hours): https://www.davidcayley.com/podcasts/2014/11/30/1msu5jd829w2... I can also recommend the already mentioned "Philosophize This!" podcast As for her writings, I enjoyed these short pieces: * The Power of Words * The Iliad, or the Poem of Force * Écrits historiques et politiques (fr) https://cras31.info/IMG/pdf/simone_weil_-_ecrits_1_--_histor...
on “Simone Weil’s Great Awakening” ↗Advice for anyone reading the Iliad: read Simone Weil's essay "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" first [1]. The essay was a profound experience on its own for me, in a way that came as a great relief in a world which seemed to lack all moral gravity. (Note, it was written in 1945.) And it conveys…
on “Advice on Reading Homer in Translation” ↗…gets boring fast. Like Mercutio, she's the best character. The poem itself is Auden's 1952 reworking with the Cold War and nuclear annihilation as an implicit backdrop. It reminded me of Simon Weil's Iliad or the Poem of Force.
on “The Shield of Achilles (1952)” ↗