We begin the great tale of the Odyssey again, with articulated breath. All recordings will be free, but let me encourage subscribers to become paid members to support my work. I would like to offer paid subscribers the opportunity to participate in a chat about the passages I cover in each instalment. I shall begin the chat with a question, which will always be a question which is alive to me. I like leading seminars, and prefer that my own plentiful opinions earn their way into a conversation, rather than I privilege them by delivering them from a lecturer’s podium. I also only like real questions, not leading ones, so don’t expect in me a ready-made answer man for my own questions; I hope that subscribers will react and interact, and that I shall learn something on the way. Look for a chat notification at some point after each post. I also hope that participants will have helpful and critical things to say about the translation, my English impression in linear prose. I do hope to improve it as a result, and perhaps see if someone would like to publish it. The Greek text is my own, based on the edition by M. L. West. It has been published in six volumes on Amazon, complete with my translation on the facing page. They are available at these links, for $9.99 each:
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I am disabled but recovering from a transplant, and am grateful that there’s still air enough in my lungs to sing Homer. Aside from my disability, my findings have proved too controversial for me to be licensed to teach in professional Classics. Hence any financial support for my efforts is deeply appreciated.
Below is my recording of the Greek for Homer’s Odyssey, 1.1-135:
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