A review by keberwick
War and the Iliad by Simone Weil, Rachel Bespaloff

3.0

This is one of the first books I read for my extended essay comparing the Percy Jackson series and the Iliad. I found that the second essay in this book was the most helpful as it focused more on the characters and less on what Homer's poem was about (if that makes sense). The second essay also contains a section comparing the Iliad to Leo Tolstoy's works, which I thought was incredibly interesting. It's definitely a great book if you want to know more about the Iliad, and it's rather short which makes it even better.