How Daniel Mendelsohn found his father through Homer’s ’Odyssey’
When the eldery Jay took his son’s seminar on the epic, a profound personal and intellectual journey was launched
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The Odyssey
On Homer, fine-tuning ’The Iliad’ and being the rock star of translators
Stephen Mitchell in conversation with Jessica Allen
Oh my goodness, look at that outfit!
Classics clubs are agog as sword-and-sandal epics replace vampires as the trend du jour