The Iliad

[keiliss]

Today the British Museum is hosting a live reading of Homer's Iliad from start to finish using more than 60 artists. The live feed can be found HERE.

I have a limited data cap and know I should only listen for a few minutes but I'm absolutely enthralled. The woman currently reading is bringing every word to life.

Comments

[ysilme]

Oh, this is awesome, thanks for sharing! :D I'm surprised how much I understand - anything which is not 18th-21st century is often difficult for me to understand when read aloud.
How do you know who's the current reader? I would love to know who was the one I started with, he was amazing.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I've gone all over the site and unless I'm missing something obvious, there's just a link of the actors taking part, no way of telling who's currently reading.

I think the rhythm of the words helps make it easier to follow perhaps, it's not like standard prose.

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! The Iliad!

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! It's hard to beat Homer - true literature that has survived the centuries, beloved in every generation. I would love to see this performed/read in an amphitheater.

- Erulisse (one L)

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

Hearing it was so different to reading it aloud, like the difference between shades of grey and colour.

[talullahred.livejournal.com]

How very nice! I caught a nice bit with a very expressive young woman just now.

We have a group of high school kids who read the classics and at the end of every school year they read the Iliad or the Odyssey. Of course they are not at the same level, but it's also very nice.

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

*and at the end of every school year they read the Iliad or the Odyssey* It is magical that those words still live and breathe after several millennia. What a wonderful idea!

[talullahred.livejournal.com]

It is nice. I hope Tiago will want to join them some day. I'll be with the other moms cheering and distributing cookies in the intermissions. :D If he doesn't, well, it's still a nice day. People come and go, watch the kids...

[angelica-ramses.livejournal.com]

I've just started working at a new school teaching Ancient History starting with, guess what? the Trojan war! I'm listening if only to get in the mood. Patroclus has just been killed :(

[keiliss.livejournal.com]

I had no idea you taught Ancient History. That's something I would have loved!

[red-lasbelin.livejournal.com]

Sorry I missed this, but also glad you had some chances to dip in and listen. I've put the link on my bookmarks bar in the hopes that I will remember to check back for the podcasts. *crosses fingers*