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.

Episode Date
S1E10 - Iliad I.285-311
Sep 18, 2019
S1E9 - Iliad I.245-84
Sep 01, 2019
S1E8 - Iliad I.206-44; Bardic & Rhapsodic
Aug 06, 2019
S1E7 - Iliad I.172-205
Jul 29, 2019
S1E6 - Iliad I.130-71
Jul 23, 2019
S1E5 - Iliad I.92-129
Jun 24, 2019
S1E4 - Iliad I.68-91
Jun 17, 2019
S1E3 - Iliad I.33-67
Jun 17, 2019
S1E2 - Iliad I.1-32
Jun 17, 2019
Introduction
Jun 17, 2019