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At the largest school library in Greece, we offer junior high and high school students all the necessary tools to do research projects and deepen their knowledge.

Athens College Library began its operation in the 1930s within the spaces of Benaki Hall.  Its collection was organized more systematically in the 1950s.  Since 1964, it is housed in its own 1300 m2 building on the Psychico campus, a structure designed by architect and Athens College alumnus, Pavlos Mylonas.

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During holidays and summer break, operating hours may change. 

 

At the Main Athens College Library, we have:

  • 100,000 Greek and foreign volumes in Greek and English
  • subscriptions to electronic databases
  • 200 current titles of printed and digital journals/magazines and newspapers
  • a rich selection of audiovisual materials
  • 200 study stations and 140 computers & laptops
  • the D-Space institutional repository in order to collect, organize, promote, and maintain materials produced at the College

 

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. 

 

Mendelsohn, Daniel. An Odyssey: A Father a Son and an Epic. Knopf; First Edition edition (September 12, 2017)

 

“When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to echo the Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration.”

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33571159-an-odyssey 

 

About the author

 

MendelsonDaniel Mendelsohn, an award-winning author, critic, and translator, is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Born on Long Island, he began a career in journalism in New York City in the early 1990s while completing his Ph.D. in Classics at Princeton. Since then, his articles, essays, reviews and translations have appeared frequently in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, The Paris Review, and Travel + Leisure. He has been the weekly book critic for New York magazine, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Criticism, and has been a columnist for Harper's and The New York Times Book Review. He is presently a regular contributor to BBC Culture. 

Mendelsohn's books include a memoir, "The Elusive Embrace" (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; the international bestseller "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" (2006), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Salon Book Award, and many other honors in the US and abroad, including the Prix Médicis in France; two collection of his essays and criticism, "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken" (2008), a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and "Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture" (2012), which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize in Criticism and the PEN Art of the Essay Award; and a two-volume translation, with Introduction and Commentary, of the Complete Poems of the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (2009), also a Publisher Weekly Best Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Criticos Prize (U.K.).In September 2017, his new memoir, "An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic," was published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and by William Collins in the U.K., where it has been long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.Daniel Mendelsohn was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012; he is also a member of the American Philosophical Society. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the George Jean Nathan Prize for Dramatic Criticism. He teaches literature at Bard College and lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.

- https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Father-Son-Epic/dp/0385350597 

 

Critiques - Presentations

Mendelson

Δημήτρης Δουλγερίδης, «Κυνηγάμε όλοι σκιές, όπως ο Οδυσσέας», "Τα Νέα"/ "Βιβλιοδρόμιο", 1.9.2018

Τίνα Μανδηλαρά, Η «Οδύσσεια» του Μέντελσον: Ένα μεγάλο μάθημα αυτογνωσίας, "Lifo", 27.7.2018

Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, Ο Οδυσσέας και το πρόσωπο του πατέρα, "Το Βήμα"/ "Βιβλία", 8.7.2018

Ηλίας Μαγκλίνης, Μια άλλη οδύσσεια, "Η Καθημερινή", 23.6.2018

Emily Wilson, An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn review – a father, a son and Homer’s epic. “The Guardian”, 13.9.2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/13/an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-by-daniel-mendelsohn-review

Adam Nicolson, Father-Son Bonding, With Homer as Guide. “The New York Times”, 17.11.2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/books/review/daniel-mendelsohn-an-odyssey-memoir.html

Dwight Garner, A father and son sail through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ together. “The New York Times”, 18.9.2017https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/books/review/review-an-odyssey-daniel-mendelsohn.html

Helen Morales, The twisty one: Helen Morales on reimagining the story of Odysseus in a modern context. “The Times Literary Supplement”, 7.11.2017 https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/odyssey-mendelsohn-wilson-review/

 

 

Books by the author available at the library

Mendelson

Mendelsohn, Daniel. Περιμένοντας τους βαρβάρους: από τον Αριστοφάνη στο Avatar. Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2016. (809.9335 ΜΕΝ)

Mendelsohn, Daniel. Χαμένοι: αναζητώντας έξι από τα έξι εκατομμύρια. Πόλις, 2010. (940.5318 MEN)

 

 

Translations

Mendelson

Καβάφης, Κ. Π. Complete poems. Translated with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn. Harper, 2013. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

Καβάφης, Κ. Π. Collected poems. Translated with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn. Knopf, 2009. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

Καβάφης, Κ. Π.  The unfinished poems. (The first English translation with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn based on the Greek edition of Renata Lavagnini.) Knopf, 2009. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

 

Mendelson

 

Interesting webpages and video clips

http://www.danielmendelsohn.com/about (Η επίσημη ιστοσελίδα του συγγραφέα)

https://el-gr.facebook.com/Daniel.A.Mendelsohn/ (Η ιστοσελίδα του συγγραφέα στο facebook)

https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/daniel-mendelsohn (Άρθρα του συγγραφέα στο “The New Yorker”)

https://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas/ondemand/2017-2018-season/daniel-mendelsohn/ (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn μιλάει ζωντανά για το βιβλίο του στο “JCCSF Arts and ideas”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Var-8ztSLTs  (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn απαγγέλει Καβάφη στο Ίδρυμα Ωνάση)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_smFcnRkZlc (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn μιλάει για τον Καβάφη και απαγγέλει ποίησή του στο 92Y)

Mendelson

 

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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. 

 

Mendelsohn, Daniel. An Odyssey: A Father a Son and an Epic. Knopf; First Edition edition (September 12, 2017)

 

“When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to echo the Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration.”

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33571159-an-odyssey 

 

About the author

 

MendelsonDaniel Mendelsohn, an award-winning author, critic, and translator, is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Born on Long Island, he began a career in journalism in New York City in the early 1990s while completing his Ph.D. in Classics at Princeton. Since then, his articles, essays, reviews and translations have appeared frequently in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, The Paris Review, and Travel + Leisure. He has been the weekly book critic for New York magazine, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Criticism, and has been a columnist for Harper's and The New York Times Book Review. He is presently a regular contributor to BBC Culture. 

Mendelsohn's books include a memoir, "The Elusive Embrace" (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; the international bestseller "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" (2006), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Salon Book Award, and many other honors in the US and abroad, including the Prix Médicis in France; two collection of his essays and criticism, "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken" (2008), a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and "Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture" (2012), which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize in Criticism and the PEN Art of the Essay Award; and a two-volume translation, with Introduction and Commentary, of the Complete Poems of the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (2009), also a Publisher Weekly Best Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Criticos Prize (U.K.).In September 2017, his new memoir, "An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic," was published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and by William Collins in the U.K., where it has been long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.Daniel Mendelsohn was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012; he is also a member of the American Philosophical Society. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the George Jean Nathan Prize for Dramatic Criticism. He teaches literature at Bard College and lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.

- https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Father-Son-Epic/dp/0385350597 

 

Critiques - Presentations

Mendelson

Δημήτρης Δουλγερίδης, «Κυνηγάμε όλοι σκιές, όπως ο Οδυσσέας», "Τα Νέα"/ "Βιβλιοδρόμιο", 1.9.2018

Τίνα Μανδηλαρά, Η «Οδύσσεια» του Μέντελσον: Ένα μεγάλο μάθημα αυτογνωσίας, "Lifo", 27.7.2018

Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, Ο Οδυσσέας και το πρόσωπο του πατέρα, "Το Βήμα"/ "Βιβλία", 8.7.2018

Ηλίας Μαγκλίνης, Μια άλλη οδύσσεια, "Η Καθημερινή", 23.6.2018

Emily Wilson, An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn review – a father, a son and Homer’s epic. “The Guardian”, 13.9.2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/13/an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-by-daniel-mendelsohn-review

Adam Nicolson, Father-Son Bonding, With Homer as Guide. “The New York Times”, 17.11.2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/books/review/daniel-mendelsohn-an-odyssey-memoir.html

Dwight Garner, A father and son sail through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ together. “The New York Times”, 18.9.2017https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/books/review/review-an-odyssey-daniel-mendelsohn.html

Helen Morales, The twisty one: Helen Morales on reimagining the story of Odysseus in a modern context. “The Times Literary Supplement”, 7.11.2017 https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/odyssey-mendelsohn-wilson-review/

 

 

Books by the author available at the library

Mendelson

Mendelsohn, Daniel. Περιμένοντας τους βαρβάρους: από τον Αριστοφάνη στο Avatar. Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2016. (809.9335 ΜΕΝ)

Mendelsohn, Daniel. Χαμένοι: αναζητώντας έξι από τα έξι εκατομμύρια. Πόλις, 2010. (940.5318 MEN)

 

 

Translations

Mendelson

Καβάφης, Κ. Π. Complete poems. Translated with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn. Harper, 2013. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

Καβάφης, Κ. Π. Collected poems. Translated with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn. Knopf, 2009. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

Καβάφης, Κ. Π.  The unfinished poems. (The first English translation with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn based on the Greek edition of Renata Lavagnini.) Knopf, 2009. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

 

Mendelson

 

Interesting webpages and video clips

http://www.danielmendelsohn.com/about (Η επίσημη ιστοσελίδα του συγγραφέα)

https://el-gr.facebook.com/Daniel.A.Mendelsohn/ (Η ιστοσελίδα του συγγραφέα στο facebook)

https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/daniel-mendelsohn (Άρθρα του συγγραφέα στο “The New Yorker”)

https://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas/ondemand/2017-2018-season/daniel-mendelsohn/ (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn μιλάει ζωντανά για το βιβλίο του στο “JCCSF Arts and ideas”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Var-8ztSLTs  (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn απαγγέλει Καβάφη στο Ίδρυμα Ωνάση)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_smFcnRkZlc (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn μιλάει για τον Καβάφη και απαγγέλει ποίησή του στο 92Y)

Mendelson

 

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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. 

 

Mendelsohn, Daniel. An Odyssey: A Father a Son and an Epic. Knopf; First Edition edition (September 12, 2017)

 

“When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to echo the Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration.”

- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33571159-an-odyssey 

 

About the author

 

MendelsonDaniel Mendelsohn, an award-winning author, critic, and translator, is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and the New York Review of Books. Born on Long Island, he began a career in journalism in New York City in the early 1990s while completing his Ph.D. in Classics at Princeton. Since then, his articles, essays, reviews and translations have appeared frequently in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, Esquire, Newsweek, The Paris Review, and Travel + Leisure. He has been the weekly book critic for New York magazine, for which he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Excellence in Criticism, and has been a columnist for Harper's and The New York Times Book Review. He is presently a regular contributor to BBC Culture. 

Mendelsohn's books include a memoir, "The Elusive Embrace" (1999), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; the international bestseller "The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million" (2006), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Jewish Book Award, the Salon Book Award, and many other honors in the US and abroad, including the Prix Médicis in France; two collection of his essays and criticism, "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken" (2008), a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, and "Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture" (2012), which was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize in Criticism and the PEN Art of the Essay Award; and a two-volume translation, with Introduction and Commentary, of the Complete Poems of the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (2009), also a Publisher Weekly Best Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Criticos Prize (U.K.).In September 2017, his new memoir, "An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic," was published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and by William Collins in the U.K., where it has been long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction.Daniel Mendelsohn was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012; he is also a member of the American Philosophical Society. Other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the George Jean Nathan Prize for Dramatic Criticism. He teaches literature at Bard College and lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.

- https://www.amazon.com/Odyssey-Father-Son-Epic/dp/0385350597 

 

Critiques - Presentations

Mendelson

Δημήτρης Δουλγερίδης, «Κυνηγάμε όλοι σκιές, όπως ο Οδυσσέας», "Τα Νέα"/ "Βιβλιοδρόμιο", 1.9.2018

Τίνα Μανδηλαρά, Η «Οδύσσεια» του Μέντελσον: Ένα μεγάλο μάθημα αυτογνωσίας, "Lifo", 27.7.2018

Λαμπρινή Κουζέλη, Ο Οδυσσέας και το πρόσωπο του πατέρα, "Το Βήμα"/ "Βιβλία", 8.7.2018

Ηλίας Μαγκλίνης, Μια άλλη οδύσσεια, "Η Καθημερινή", 23.6.2018

Emily Wilson, An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn review – a father, a son and Homer’s epic. “The Guardian”, 13.9.2017, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/13/an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-by-daniel-mendelsohn-review

Adam Nicolson, Father-Son Bonding, With Homer as Guide. “The New York Times”, 17.11.2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/books/review/daniel-mendelsohn-an-odyssey-memoir.html

Dwight Garner, A father and son sail through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ together. “The New York Times”, 18.9.2017https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/books/review/review-an-odyssey-daniel-mendelsohn.html

Helen Morales, The twisty one: Helen Morales on reimagining the story of Odysseus in a modern context. “The Times Literary Supplement”, 7.11.2017 https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/odyssey-mendelsohn-wilson-review/

 

 

Books by the author available at the library

Mendelson

Mendelsohn, Daniel. Περιμένοντας τους βαρβάρους: από τον Αριστοφάνη στο Avatar. Εκδόσεις Πατάκη, 2016. (809.9335 ΜΕΝ)

Mendelsohn, Daniel. Χαμένοι: αναζητώντας έξι από τα έξι εκατομμύρια. Πόλις, 2010. (940.5318 MEN)

 

 

Translations

Mendelson

Καβάφης, Κ. Π. Complete poems. Translated with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn. Harper, 2013. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

Καβάφης, Κ. Π. Collected poems. Translated with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn. Knopf, 2009. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

Καβάφης, Κ. Π.  The unfinished poems. (The first English translation with introduction and commentary by Daniel Mendelsohn based on the Greek edition of Renata Lavagnini.) Knopf, 2009. (Library Office Collection 891.65 ΚΑΒ)

 

Mendelson

 

Interesting webpages and video clips

http://www.danielmendelsohn.com/about (Η επίσημη ιστοσελίδα του συγγραφέα)

https://el-gr.facebook.com/Daniel.A.Mendelsohn/ (Η ιστοσελίδα του συγγραφέα στο facebook)

https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/daniel-mendelsohn (Άρθρα του συγγραφέα στο “The New Yorker”)

https://www.jccsf.org/arts-ideas/ondemand/2017-2018-season/daniel-mendelsohn/ (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn μιλάει ζωντανά για το βιβλίο του στο “JCCSF Arts and ideas”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Var-8ztSLTs  (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn απαγγέλει Καβάφη στο Ίδρυμα Ωνάση)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_smFcnRkZlc (Ο Daniel Mendelsohn μιλάει για τον Καβάφη και απαγγέλει ποίησή του στο 92Y)

Mendelson

 

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