An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017

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Copyright © 2017 by Daniel Mendelsohn

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Version: 2018-05-03

Dedication

For my mother

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Author’s Note

Proem

Telemachy

1. Paideusis

2. Homophrosynê

Apologoi

Nostos

Anagnorisis

Sêma

Acknowledgments

Permissions Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Daniel Mendelsohn

About the Publisher

Author’s Note

For the purposes of narrative coherence and in consideration of the privacy of the students in my Odyssey seminar and the passengers aboard the “Retracing the Odyssey” cruise, names have been changed and a number of details relating to events and characters have been modified.

All translations from Greek and Latin are my own.

PROEM

(Invocation)

1964–2011

The plot of the Odyssey is not long in the telling. A man has been away from home for many years; Poseidon is always on the watch for him; he is all alone. As for the situation at home, his goods are being laid waste by the Suitors, who plot against his son. After a storm-tossed journey, he returns home, where he reveals himself, destroys his enemies, and is saved.

—ARISTOTLE, Poetics

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