Daniel Mendelsohn
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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Thank you for having me.
I'm glad to be here.
I actually do very vividly because uh I was I think
In about nine
Great.
And my parents were having a cocktail party and it just so happens that they were friends with the high school English teacher and I was not yet in high school, but she was chatting me up at a certain point because I snuck downstairs to see what was going on at the cocktail party.
And we were talking, and I was already a reader, and I was all, you know, already very interested in mythology and ancient Greek history.
And she said, Well, you need to read the Odyssey because it's the perfect thing for some kid like you to read.
And I was a very good boy, and I
w ran to the library and got it out and it
You know, it rocked my world.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, there's a there is that wonderful experience you have as a teacher when a when you see the sort of the light come on, so to speak, in a s in a student's eyes, when you connect them to the material that will be
their thing in life.
And I've been lucky enough to have that experience a number of times with students of mine.
And I certainly, I think, was that student for a number of my own teachers, but I certainly that evening took her advice and it did indeed click for me.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
Well, you know, there's a kind of
Anecdotal
kind of joke among classicists which is and I but I think it's actually true, you know, which is you tend to be either an Iliad person or an Odyssey person.
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