Singing Homer
A P DavidAn evolving performance of Homer's Odyssey in ancient Greek and English, with commentary.
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‘Tell your woman’ (cont.)—Homer in Greek
Dipylon amphora, c.760-750 BCE
Anticleia responds to her son in the reverse order of his questions, ending with the circumstances of her death, in a terrific takedown. It becomes almost dizzying to register this as a dramatisation by Odyss...
‘Tell your woman’—Homer in English
Odyssey 11.152-224
J. Heinrich Füssli, Teiresias Foretells the Future to Odysseus (with Anticleia), c.1800
Odysseus’ encounter with his mother begins in the same hideous way in which, one presumes, all his encounters with the souls o...
Homer’s Harmonia: In the Beginning ... was the Musical Word
Let’s take stock of what’s been said. I was stopped short in this performative journey through the Odyssey by the problem of how to think and talk about Persephone. Perhaps there is a significance hidden to me in such a blockage. Homer hims...
The Haunted Text: Music, Allusion, and Stagecraft in Homer’s Odyssey
The idea of ‘the haunted text’ began while confronting the problem of Persephone in the Odyssey, which in terms of the circulatory system of the Singing Homer idea proved to be an arterial blockage. Persephone made the blood run cold. In th...
‘The Cheerless Place’: Homer in English
Odyssey 11.90-151
‘Why ever, you wretched man, did you leave the light of the Sun
And come to see the corpses and the cheerless place?’ (Od.11.93-4)
J. Henry Füssli, Tiresias appears to Ulysses during the sacrifice, 1780-5
One of T...
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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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