A Scholar's Odyssey
This book is, as Cyrus H. Gordon (1908-2001) himself notes
in the introduction, an 'autobiographical sketch'. He only
just completed it as sadly he died in March 2001. At 149
pages, including bibliography and index, I am sure that his
many admirers and ex-students would wish it to be about
five times longer, but Gordon himself would probably have
said that his many publications and other works shall speak
for him. Perhaps the best known of these w...