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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...