her christological interpretations of classic Greek texts /
Marie Cabaud Meaney.
New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
1 online resource (xvii, 245 pages).
Oxford modern languages and literature monographs
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-240) and index.
After an unexpected mystical experience, the philosopher Simone Weil (1909-43) read the Greek classics from a Christian perspective, as this original study shows. To the intellectual agnostics of her day she wanted to show that the classics they loved could only be fully understood in light of Christ. To the Catholics she wanted to demonstrate that Christianity is much more universal than they thought, since Greek culture already embodied the Christian spirit before the incarnation. of Christ. - ;Marie Cabaud Meaney looks at Simone Weil's Christological interpretations of the Sophoclean Antigo.