In looking forward, I have also thought back to my first job in publishing. I began my career at a company called Pergamon Press, a publisher of scientific journals and upper level college textbooks. No one knew what the company name meant, or how to pronounce it (purr-ga-MON), so I frequently had to explain that the UK-based company, owned by British media mogul Robert Maxwell, was named after an ancient Greek city in which there was a famed library and an altar to Athena, goddess of wisdom. Athena’s face graced our company colophon, and it was to her shrine that those in need of insight would travel. Thinking of this, I realize that, funny enough, from the beginning of my publishing career I did in fact have an association between publishing and oracles.
- Companies:
- Pearson Company
- People:
- Paul Belfanti