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October 16

Daniel Mendelsohn on his new Translation of the Odyssey

Join us Thurs Oct 16, at 4:30pm in Franklin (PAC 100)

Classicist, critic, essayist, best-selling author and acclaimed translator Daniel Mendelsohn will join us at Wesleyan to speak about his new translation of the Odyssey (U. Chicago Press), a work that has been called “fast, fluent, thrilling” , and “the edition for our time and beyond”. Mendelsohn is especially known for drawing upon his keen eye for the ways in which classical studies helps us to see contemporary culture more clearly.

Among his many pieces in the New Yorker and the New York Review of books,  Mendelsohn’s books include An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (2017), named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, Newsday, Library Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus. His tenth book Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate, published in September 2020, was named Best Foreign Book of the Year in France.

Sponsored by the Dept. of Classical Studies, the College of Letters, and the Shapiro Center.