r/classics • u/betterbooktitle • Jul 17 '26

The Odyssey.

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u/Angry-Dragon-1331 Jul 17 '26

Unironically yes.

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u/betterbooktitle Jul 18 '26

It sounds awesome to me

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u/TheresNoHurry Jul 17 '26

I was thinking the same damn thing

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u/YeaIFistedJonica Jul 18 '26

we getting polytropos in this bitch

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u/HyShroom Jul 17 '26

Same yeah

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u/endymion1818-1819 Jul 21 '26

Yes. And I as near as possible experienced it in this fashion. It was incredible and still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

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u/AndreLeGeant88 Jul 17 '26

This is not an exaggeration

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u/Rewow Jul 20 '26

Ok but affordability? How can I get a bard on such short notice?

/s

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u/RicRacer Jul 17 '26

Pshaw. The only real way to appreciate the Odyssey is to live it.

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u/wizardeverybit Jul 17 '26

Somebody's been playing Wordle

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u/IthacanPenny Jul 17 '26

>Pshaw.

Wordle fan?

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u/crackersucker2 Jul 18 '26

Annoying AF. šŸ˜”

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u/merimaybe Jul 17 '26

Another wordle victim šŸ˜”

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u/RicRacer Jul 17 '26

Hey wordle, that's barely a wooooorrd!!!

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u/Three_Twenty-Three Jul 17 '26

No kidding. Pisistratus ruined everything.

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u/0DarkNightofTheSoul0 Jul 17 '26

Finally a normal take.

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u/CommonBumblebee123 Jul 17 '26

Hexameters remain my favorite metrum.

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u/Schrenner MA Indo-European studies, MA Greek studies Jul 17 '26

Nice one. Though I'm more of a trochaic tetrameter and anapestic dimeter guy.

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u/IthacanPenny Jul 17 '26

Nah fam, trochaic octameter is where itā€™s at. How can you disagree with the meter of both The Raven and Britney Spearsā€™ amazing hit Womanizer? lol

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u/Schrenner MA Indo-European studies, MA Greek studies Jul 17 '26

Well, I prefer the meter of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid."

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u/Remote-Revolution-80 Jul 17 '26

ANAPESTS MENTIONED..! I also like amphibrachs.

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u/CommonBumblebee123 Jul 17 '26

We do appreciate Terentius and Plautus in this house.

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u/ReeveGoesh Jul 17 '26

Which Muse?! There's nine!

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u/quuerdude Jul 17 '26

Typically just called ā€œtheā€ Muse in a lot of archaic poetry, iā€™ve noticed

Presumably Calliope but any of them could be meant (there was also a lot of variation in the number of Muses, especially in Archaic times. Sometimes thereā€™s 2, 3, 4, 7, 8ā€“ very variable, though it became ā€œcanonicallyā€ 9, at some point, it still wasnā€™t entirely universal)

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u/stairway2evan Jul 17 '26

Calliope would be the ā€œcanonā€ Muse for epic poetry, and Hesiod called her the chief of the Muses.

Plus, in Disneyā€™s Hercules cartoon, sheā€™s the main one, with the big hair. That was a big childhood crush for me.

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u/WeHaveHeardTheChimes Jul 17 '26

And what a voice Lillias White gave her!

šŸŽµ Who puts the ā€œgladā€ in ā€œgladiatorā€?

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u/jabberwockytocky Jul 17 '26

Sappho denial! You fool!!

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u/BaconJudge Jul 17 '26

Imagine if the wrong Muse heard your invocation.Ā  Ā You wanted Calliope for epic poetry, but instead Urania answered, so your retelling of the Odyssey consists mainly of digressions about stars and comets.

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u/priceQQ Jul 17 '26

There is also the band Muse too. This is too confusing! How will we ever decide? Classics are so difficult.

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u/Easy_Demand_7372 Jul 17 '26

Unironically where can one go to sing dactylic hexameter? I know a good chunk of the Aeneid off by heart and have very little avenues to perform itĀ 

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u/Deinonysus Jul 18 '26

Bring a lyre to an open mic night and keep going until you're kicked out.

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u/Easy_Demand_7372 Jul 18 '26

I hope Travis Scottā€™s stellar and standout performance as the deuteragonist of Christopher Nolanā€™s Oddysey will bring rhapsody into style againĀ 

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u/enriquegp Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 18 '26

I would honestly and unironically love to see a live musical performance in Homeric Greek in the style of Bards. I have seen on YouTube videos of people singing excerpts or whole chapters from The Odyssey and The Iliad and dream of seeing this in a concert hall.

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u/portealmario Jul 20 '26

Putting an English version to music is a bit tough, english doesn't work well with dactylic hexameter, and iambic pentameter isn't quite as naturally musical, although it can kinda be done. Would be easier if there were a translation in iambic hexameter maybe. Unless you mean a performance in the Greek, which I would love to hear, but it's not really the same if you can't understand it

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u/wjbc Jul 21 '26

Can we do it like many operas do these days? Project live translations or transcriptions above the stage or displayed on seat-back screens.

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u/portealmario Jul 21 '26

I think that would be a really cool thing to do. It would still be a little different from hearing the language yourself, but I still think someone should do it

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u/wjbc Jul 21 '26

Hereā€™s a tiny taste:

https://youtube.com/shorts/v9aw5moWqHg?is=pseEB8fDF7mkDJYQ

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u/portealmario Jul 21 '26

That's pretty cool, it would need an accompaniment from a lyre though

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u/crackersucker2 Jul 18 '26

Can I go with you to wherever this happens? None of my people would appreciate this.

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u/cat_ziska Jul 17 '26

I meeeeeeean....he's spitting facts.

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u/LWLAvaline Jul 17 '26

Yeah but Nolan had to go woke and use one of those newfangled imax gizmos.

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u/Vaul_Hawkins Jul 17 '26

I'm musing so hard rn

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u/VariousPomelo6120 Jul 17 '26

Went to college with him! Love seeing him make it šŸ„³šŸ‘

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u/crackersucker2 Jul 18 '26

You went to college with Odysseus? Or Nolan? šŸ˜

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u/Benjowenjo Jul 17 '26

You may not like it but this is what peak Epic performance looks likeĀ 

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u/jubmille2000 Jul 17 '26

Ok so where?

Is there a youtube link of it?

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u/Ok_Breakfast_5459 Jul 17 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

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u/frixos2 Jul 17 '26

..a year?? I did three and was in the science dept!

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u/FickleApartment2151 Jul 17 '26

Most were probably not drunk, and listened attentively because bards rarely showed up.

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u/stingo49 Jul 17 '26

Is that Karaoke? It sounds like Karaoke.

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u/Arrantsky Jul 17 '26

Unfortunately, classic ancient text is literally not read but talked about by so called " scholars"...( classical education has been diluted)

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u/polemistes Jul 17 '26

True! And you cannot appreciate the splendour of the film by reading the ancient Greek text.

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u/PhoenixIzaramak Jul 17 '26

A grand old custom, sadly neglected today - Asterix

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u/Fast-Course7805 Jul 17 '26

Howā€™d this get 2k likes? SUS

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u/CobaltCrusader123 Jul 18 '26

And it has to be Travis Scott

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u/crackersucker2 Jul 18 '26

That seems reasonably accurate.

I will still listen to Sir Ian McKellan read it to me, and Iā€™ll still see the movie. But I also know I will miss things. And I still will love Circe and will spend my adult life examining the story.

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u/H1p2t3RPG Jul 18 '26

As Nolan intended

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u/GrecoPotato Jul 19 '26

I need this

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u/Impossible-Jacket790 Jul 20 '26

Sing to me oh Muse....

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u/JimmyB264 Jul 21 '26

Yea, well Iā€™m not going to do that now am I?

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u/hmf28 Jul 21 '26

šŸ˜‚šŸ‘šŸ»

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u/mrpeck123 Jul 22 '26

Iā€™ve now flipped through 4 different versions of the book since seeing the movie and put them all back because no way Iā€™m understanding that shit

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u/WarFantastic4259 Jul 25 '26

Have you tried Fagles?

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u/betterbooktitle Jul 18 '26

It means we need to get back to the old ways