Singing Homer
A P DavidAn evolving performance of Homer's Odyssey in ancient Greek and English, with commentary.
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Singing Proems
I have just made a couple of recordings for a friend’s presentation in Australia, and it occurred to me that I should share them here. In particular, it seems a good way to make quality files freely downloadable for him, the participants at...
The Longing of the Cyclops
εἰ δὴ ὁμοφρονέοις ποτιφωνήεις τε γένοιο
‘If only you could be of my same mind, and become someone to talk to …’
(Polyphemus to his bellwether ram, Od.9.456)
Odilon Redon, The Cyclops, c.1914
Polyphemus’ longing expresses the longing...
‘Nausicaa's not in it?’
‘Wait—WHAT?’ [from Tischbein, Nausikaa and Odysseus, 1819]
John Keats’ On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer was an epiphany in one’s youthful required reading. Surely I was not the only one. It informed my first encounter with the Iliad,...
‘The Witlessness of Her Thought’—Homer in English
Odyssey 11.260-80
In Greek:
Alexandre Cabanel, Oedipus separating from Jocasta, 1843
Odysseus (as Homer) has just told us the story of Tyro, whose ghost has come to meet him in Hades. The climax comes when he steps forward and speak...
‘He undid the virgin’s zone’—Homer in English
Odyssey 11.225-59
In Greek:
François Chauveau, Neptunus seduces Iphimedeia, 1623-76
Persephone’s first called witness, and the first soul permitted by Odysseus to drink the sheep’s blood and thus to speak, is Tyro. Once again Odysse...
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I have a Ph.D from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. My book, "The Dance of the Muses: Choral Theory and Ancient Greek Poetics" was published by Oxford in 2006.
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