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Written between December 1941 and May 1942, during her wartime exile, these texts are the most luminous fruit of Simone Weil's thought. Guided by the conviction that there exists a "wisdom of all times and all countries," Weil dedicates herself to the search for an eternal and universal Good that transcends cultures, religions, and eras. Through her own bold translations of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, and the Homeric Hymns, Weil invites us to see in Prometheus a reflection of Christ, or an echo of the Gospel in the Pythagoreans. A work ahead of its time, which, with this edition by Mercedes López Mateo, is now recovered in its most faithful and complete form, including the original Greek texts that previous editions omitted.