The two also embarked on an educational cruise that attempts to re-create the journey of Odysseus. His father, a retired mathematician and research scientist, had been interested in the classics during his school days and decided to continue his education by studying with his son. A frequent contributor to the New Yorker and New York Times Book Review and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, Mendelsohn ( Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, 2012, etc.) is also a classics scholar who teaches a seminar on The Odyssey at Bard College. This sharply intelligent and deeply felt work operates on an entirely different level-several of them, in fact. There have been plenty of gimmicky books about returning to the classics and unearthing the contemporary implications and timeless wisdom therein. An account of the lessons learned by a son and his father as they study the Greek epic together.
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