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Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I

Homeric Rhapsody: Iliad I

Written 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.Copyright 2019 Art Entertainment & Performing Arts Music
Episodes
  • 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!

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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

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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

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    10 mins
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