The Iliad, or the Poem of Force

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ID20044017
AuthorsSimone Weil (corresponding author)
Year2007
Pages377-390
Publication date2007-12-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueOn Violence (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/j.ctv120qr2d.30
WikidataQ125457400
OpenAlexW1516103185
ISBN9780822390169
LanguageEN
Citations received28

Iliad, or, Poem of Force was written in the summer and fall of 1940, after the fall of France. It may thus be read as an indirect commentary on that tragic event, which signalized the triumph of the most extreme modern ex pression of force. It was originally published, under the acrostical pseudonym uEmile Novis, in the December 1940 and January 1941 issues of the Mar seilles literary monthly, Cahiers du Sud. present translation is by Mary McCarthy. quotations from Homer were first translated from the French manuscript by Miss McCarthy and then checked and revised by Dwight Macdonald in accordance with the Greek text. The Iliad appeared in the November 1945 issue of Politics and was later issued in pamphlet form

Art · Event (particle physics) · Fall of man · Literature · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Pseudonym · Theology · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · Classics · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Law · Philosophy

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