![]() ![]() Things didn't exactly go as planned: "The very first day of class his hand shot up and he started contesting virtually everything I said," Mendelsohn recalls. ![]() "I was a little bit afraid that having my 81-year-old dad in the class was going to disrupt the dynamic," he says.īut Mendelsohn agreed to let his dad join the class - in part because Jay promised to sit in the corner and listen silently to the seminar. How?Ĭlassics scholar Daniel Mendelsohn was preparing to teach his freshman seminar on Homer's Odyssey a few years back when he got an unusual add-in request: His father, Jay, wanted to join the class.Īt first Mendelsohn wasn't sure it was a good idea. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title An Odyssey Subtitle A Father, a Son, and an Epic Author Daniel Mendelsohn ![]()
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