Simone Weil.
 
The Lapis Press: 1991. Tall octavo. Limited to 350 copies printed. Blue cloth covered boards with some fading and a small mark to the front board. Still a handsome, near fine copy.
 
"The wantonness of the conqueror that knows no respect for any creature or thing that is at its mercy or is imagined to be so, the despair of the soldier that drives him on to destruction, the obliteration of the slave or the conquered man, the wholesale slaughter- all these elements combine in the Iliad to make a picture of uniform horror of which force is the sole hero."