Daniel Mendelsohn’s books include The Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic; Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays; and translations of the collected poems of Sappho and C. P. Cavafy. His translation of Homer’s Odyssey is forthcoming.
Reminiscences of a Student’s Life focuses on the dazzling highlights of a life lived with intensity and brilliance: the chit-chat with crowned heads, the amusing, ever-so-slightly self-deprecating anecdotes that nonetheless sneakily illuminate either her independence of mind or her personal glamor, the intellectual enthusiasms, evoked with such memorable and even touching energy and candor.
Jane Ellen Harrison
Foreword by Daniel Mendelsohn
The arch, witty, outspoken memoirs of the pioneering archaeologist and scholar whom Mary Beard has called “my hero.”