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Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I

By: A P David
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  • Welcome to the Homeric Rhapsody podcast! These brief meditations will be renderings of Homer’s poem in Greek, following the new theory of the Greek accent from my Oxford book, The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics. After the Greek, I shall perform my impression of the lines in English. The rhapsodes were solo performers of Homer who declaimed in a theatre, draping a traveler’s cloak and wielding a long staff as a multivalent prop. So there was more to Homeric rhapsody than the audio. Yet how remarkable and unique is Homer’s text, whose rhythm originally accompanied a dactylic round dance, but unlike any other song lyrics known to me, becomes numinous as spoken poetry; these verses harbour moments of transcendent lyric, amid the potency of the greatest dramatic verse.
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  • S1E10 - Iliad I.285-311

    S1E10 - Iliad I.285-311
    Sep 18 2019
    Episode Notes

    Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D285

    Visit www.danceofthemuses.info for lots of background and video!

    Support Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/homeric-rhapsody-iliad-i
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    5 mins
  • S1E9 - Iliad I.245-84

    S1E9 - Iliad I.245-84
    Sep 1 2019
    Episode Notes

    Visit http://danceofthemuses.info for background and videos!

    Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D245

    Support Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/homeric-rhapsody-iliad-i
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    7 mins
  • S1E8 - Iliad I.206-44; Bardic & Rhapsodic

    S1E8 - Iliad I.206-44; Bardic & Rhapsodic
    Aug 6 2019
    Episode Notes

    Read lots of background and watch video at www.danceofthemuses.info.

    Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D206

    Support Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/homeric-rhapsody-iliad-i
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    10 mins
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Homerian Rhapsody

Thanks so much for this! Recordings if the rythm and flow are very important even to one who can't understand the subtleties the language.

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Extraordinary

What an elocution! This is a tour de forces! It is possible to be present at the reckoning of those giants!

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Holy sh*t

This is amazing. Please please make more. Narrate a full performance!! You're incredibly talented.

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