Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I: Recent Episodes
A P David
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.
Episode Notes Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D285
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Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D245
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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
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Episode Notes Read lots of background and watch video at www.danceofthemuses.info.
Perseus link to Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D172
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Episode Notes Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D130
Visit www.danceofthemuses.info for lots of background and video!
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Episode Notes Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D92
Visit www.danceofthemuses.info for lots of background and video!
Support Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/homeric-rhapsody-iliad-i
Episode Notes Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D68
Visit www.danceofthemuses.info for lots of background and video!
Support Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I by donating to the tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/homeric-rhapsody-iliad-i
Episode Notes Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D33
Visit www.danceofthemuses.info for lots of background and video!
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Episode Notes Greek text: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0133
Visit www.danceofthemuses.info for lots of background and video!
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These performances follow the divisions of the text published at the Perseus site, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0133. Select ‘view text chunked by’ line, rather than book. I believe this is the default setting. I have sometimes departed from their text where there are errors or worthy manuscript variants, or else an editor’s choice of punctuation alters the tonal profile. The listener is invited to follow along in the Greek, and then close his eyes for the English.
Visit www.danceofthemuses.info for lots of background and video!
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