The Odyssey

US writer Daniel Mendelsohn poses in a library in Paris in 2007

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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On Homer, fine-tuning ‘The Iliad’ and being the rock star of translators

Stephen Mitchell in conversation with Jessica Allen

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Oh my goodness, look at that outfit!

Classics clubs are agog as sword-and-sandal epics replace vampires as the trend du jour