“For those dreamers who considered that force, thanks to progress, could soon be a thing of the past, The Iliad  could appear as an historical document; for others, whose powers of recognition are more acute and who perceive force, today as yesterday, as at the very centre of human history, The Iliad is the purest and loveliest of mirrors”. Simone Weil, The Iliad or the Poem of Force Vengeance of Achilles , 1978, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Western literature beg