Homer in the XXth Century: Simone Weil & Rachel Bespaloff.

Menlo Park: Occasional Works, 2006. First edition. 18 pp. Fine in wrappers with printed cover label. Pictorial endpapers, title page printed letterpress. One of 100 copies on Mohawk Superfine paper, hand-bound at the Foolscap Press. In this short essay classicist Charles Rowan Beye pays critical homage to Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff, two legendary European intellectuals whose interpretations of Homer’s Iliad are a lasting reading of the poem’s significance in the context of the horrors of the Second World War.