Iliad I.1–21
μῆνιν ἄειδε θεά — the anger of Achilles, with the dactylic pulse marked as the recitation plays.
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How it may have been sung
Modern reconstructions of Homeric hexameter for the first verses of each poem. These are not recordings from antiquity.
Odyssey I.1–21
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα — the man of many turns, in the same facing recitation layout.
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