Bennett Simon is a retired psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Harvard Medical School (Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry) and the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (Training Analyst, Emeritus), amateur (in the root sense) classicist, and fortunate to know Vered and benefit from her work. Publications include: Mind and Madness in Ancient Greece (1978), Tragic Drama and the Family (1988) and “Gambling with Demeter: Winning, Losing, and Successful Outcome in Herodotus’ Histories” (with J. Russo) Arion, 2017.