The Bad Boy of AthensMendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told. Sebastian Barry Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohns essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as our most irresistible literary critic (New York Times). This striking new collection exemplifies the way in which Mendelsohn a