On Odyssey 10.336-407

Here is the latest of my audio-video readings of the notes I write for each of the performances of Homer in English. This one is mostly the same as the post, but in general I cannot help but revise and embellish, so I encourage you to watch and comment, even if you have already read my original article. My teacher Elliott Zuckerman used to tell his students that the point of going to a lecture is to learn how to be bored. Go on, it’s good for you!

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A brief summary of my new theory of the Ancient Greek accent, including the law of tonal prominence which applies also to Latin, can be found here.

My chapter ‘Words, Accents, and White Spaces’ can be found in my recent book, Singing Homer’s Spell: The End of Oralist Poetics, available here.

The following is my original post, which contains, as ever, a recorded performance of the whole passage in both my prosaic English and Homer’s sublime Greek verses:

Here are some previous posts I mention in my talk:

The embellished video podcast for that one is here:

And there’s also this one:

with the following video:

Finally there’s this one about the stag; must get around to doing a video for it soon:

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