Recitation

How it may have been sung

Modern reconstructions of Homeric hexameter for the first verses of each poem. These are not recordings from antiquity.

Iliad I.1–21

μῆνιν ἄειδε θεά — the anger of Achilles, with the dactylic pulse marked as the recitation plays.

ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα — the man of many turns, in the same facing recitation layout.

Recitation by Literature and History Podcast. YouTube