Synopsis
The gay classics scholar explores the meanings to be derived from conflicting and overlapping social and cultural experiences, family history, and personal identity
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Daniel Mendelsohn was born on Long Island in 1960 and was educated at the University of Virginia and at Princeton. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including the <i>New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, George, Lingua Franca</i>, and the <i>New York Observer.</i> A Lecturer in classics at Princeton, he lives in New York City and in New Jersey.
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e, profoundly moving literary debut--part personal history, part cultural commentary--that announces a writer of dazzling originality.<br><br>In an emotionally charged narrative that weaves together past and present, the personal and the scholarly, a young critic and classicist takes us on a search for the meaning of identity--while showing, through remarkably fresh and accessible readings of such classical Greek and Roman writers as Catullus and Sappho, Ovid and Sophocles, how ancient stories continue to hold truths for us today.<br><br>The landscapes through which Daniel Mendelsohn takes us: the deceptively quiet streets of the suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father, who sought after scientific truth, and his Orthodox Jewish grandfather, who told "beautiful lies"; the Southern university, steeped in history and secret traditions, where he first experienced seductions both sexual and intellectual; Internet chat rooms and the streets of Chelsea,
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