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Encore: A father and a son and The Odyssey
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Author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn was teaching a university class on Homer's The Odyssey, when his elderly father decided to enrol in it.Daniel became fascinated by the stories of the ancient world as a child and grew up to study the classics and then write books and essays to share his knowledge with the wider world.
Eventually he began teaching the Ancient Greek epic, The Odyssey, to…