Reciting Homer Iliad Book 6

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  • Recitation of Hector's homily in the sixth book of the Iliad to a prepared piano accompaniment using reconstructed pronunciation and pitch accent. Recording of the accompaniment and the Greek poetry by Silvio Zinsstag, a teacher for ancient languages at Zabaan School for Languages, New Delhi
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  • @gerardzinsstag3310
    @gerardzinsstag3310 7 років тому +3297

    It's my son ! Very proud of him !

  • @rustystealberg4198
    @rustystealberg4198 4 роки тому +1545

    Mario is straight up reciting the iliad in ancient Greek

    • @rustystealberg4198
      @rustystealberg4198 4 роки тому +9

      @Challenge man Loquat from ifunny

    • @joevonnivega4224
      @joevonnivega4224 4 роки тому +16

      rusty stealberg so weird seeing others from iFunny outside the app

    • @jalayo132
      @jalayo132 4 роки тому +7

      Ahhh, more ifunny people lmao

    • @dontquestion5837
      @dontquestion5837 4 роки тому +3

      I finally found this after seeing the Mario version on i funny. I'm so glad, this is amazing.

    • @danielcarrington6525
      @danielcarrington6525 4 роки тому

      @cremekinkz no

  • @ethanhu3236
    @ethanhu3236 4 роки тому +2150

    Love him or hate him, he be spitting straight facts

  • @tahamohammad1741
    @tahamohammad1741 3 роки тому +1525

    The recording and sound quality is amazing considering this was recorded in the 8th century BCE

  • @lostathenian1836
    @lostathenian1836 4 роки тому +2657

    Man, when is Homer coming out with his next Album?

    • @prosimian
      @prosimian 4 роки тому +16

      @Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan what???

    • @prosimian
      @prosimian 4 роки тому +4

      @Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan who is Peterson

    • @epicgangnamstyle8783
      @epicgangnamstyle8783 4 роки тому +52

      @@prosimian Joe mama

    • @lostathenian1836
      @lostathenian1836 4 роки тому +5

      @Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan
      Lol! Just now saw this. You're a Peterson fan too?

    • @JanKwapis
      @JanKwapis 4 роки тому +7

      Homer is my eldest and favourite grandson.

  • @Matrix-tx5ff
    @Matrix-tx5ff 4 роки тому +804

    5:35 is straight fire 🔥

  • @CapitalTeeth
    @CapitalTeeth 4 роки тому +890

    Friendly reminder that someone had to sing this for 37 minutes straight.

    • @yourboyskeeter
      @yourboyskeeter 4 роки тому +129

      Reminder that someone played a variation on the same melody on a prepared piano for thirty minutes.

    • @elumayo4090
      @elumayo4090 4 роки тому +149

      Reminder that back in the day people would sing the entire book

    • @RexOrbis
      @RexOrbis 4 роки тому +71

      @@elumayo4090 They did take a break after every 8 books though, if I remember correctly.

    • @lithuanianwarlord2324
      @lithuanianwarlord2324 4 роки тому +35

      @CapitalTeeth friendly reminder Iliad by homer was sung over the course of few nights back in Ancient Greece

    • @JulianSki
      @JulianSki 4 роки тому +48

      Reminder that the Iliad was passed down by centuries of storytellings by elders so someone had to memorize the whole Iliad

  • @superguy199
    @superguy199 2 роки тому +493

    When he said "οὐδέ πῃ ἔστι κελαινεφέϊ Κρονίωνι αἵματι καὶ λύθρῳ πεπαλαγμένον εὐχετάασθαι.", I felt that 😔

  • @mohamadahmad5973
    @mohamadahmad5973 4 роки тому +757

    Did I just waste 37 minutes of my life listening to a poem that I don't understand?
    Yes I did, and I don't regret it.

    • @shadysam7161
      @shadysam7161 4 роки тому +47

      The internet is quite the place isn't it?

    • @mohamadahmad5973
      @mohamadahmad5973 4 роки тому +32

      @@shadysam7161 It is, and I love it.

    • @user-vf5vo7bh7v
      @user-vf5vo7bh7v 2 роки тому +7

      To be more precise, an epic, not a poem

    • @evilweevil58008
      @evilweevil58008 2 роки тому +1

      I watch it all the time when i drink loads of caffiene and I always have a good time

    • @justmart4455
      @justmart4455 2 роки тому +9

      Not a waste then, innit?

  • @user-zu6hm6vw2q
    @user-zu6hm6vw2q 6 років тому +1403

    This is maybe the most accurate rendition of Homeric Greek pronunciation and Homeric meter I've ever found on UA-cam. A real time travel. Thank you for sharing this performance.

    • @lahaine8026
      @lahaine8026 5 років тому +25

      Maybe, but Greeks definitly didnt develop Illiad, they heard it from the people that lived in Balkans and wrote it down. Juat like Jesus didng develop his stories from Bible alone, but told stories bundered if not thousends of years older than him that were popular in his area. long time before they ever arrived on Balkan.Illiad dates back to at least 1100bc and Greeks first settled on Balkans areound 800bc , so there is a 300 years gap. Homer said that they heard it from people who lived there so it was most likely developed by illyrians and original illyad probably sounded nothing like this

    • @lostathenian1836
      @lostathenian1836 4 роки тому +103

      @@lahaine8026
      The Iliad was a growing and changing thing. It was an oral tradition passed down many hundreds of years. Homer is credited because he made it popular to the Greeks. It actually probably wasn't even written down until a couple hundred years after Homer.
      What was written down was what performed. Thus, this would be very accurate to what it sounded like, if even a hundred or two years after Homer.

    • @warciminal2076
      @warciminal2076 4 роки тому +2

      Objectivist INTJ dude la haine is right the greeks didn’t exists back then. Plus homer was illyrian, and this sounds more like latin than ancient greek ow wait greeks didn’t exist back the pelazgians did.

    • @randomname5083
      @randomname5083 4 роки тому +68

      @@lahaine8026 This was definitely Greek. The Mycaeneans (who initiated the trojan war) were Indo European Greeks due to the fact that Proto Greeks had settled in Greece ever since the 3rd millennium BC. The Illyrians were not in Greece and in fact were with the Greeks during the indo European migrations but settled in the western Balkans. Before the Proto Greeks were pre greek peoples who probably spoke languages like Minoan.

    • @randomname5083
      @randomname5083 4 роки тому +31

      @@warciminal2076 Latin has loan words from Greek and was influenced by it in it's early stage. The pelasgians did not start the Trojan War. The Mycaeneans did and they were descended from Proto Greek settlers. The Illyroians were Indo European and so their presence in the Balkans wasn't older than the Greek one.

  • @sheevboi1872
    @sheevboi1872 4 роки тому +767

    Ancient Greek rapping

  • @droidB1
    @droidB1 Рік тому +87

    When he said "κάτι στα αρχαία ελληνικά ή κάτι τέτοιο" i felt that

    • @airplanedude3103
      @airplanedude3103 Рік тому +1

      Did he actually say that?

    • @droidB1
      @droidB1 Рік тому

      @@airplanedude3103 no im just making a joke people make in music videos that are not in languages that use the latin alphabet

    • @samuelbedsole5089
      @samuelbedsole5089 Рік тому +7

      My favorite part was when he said "Δεν ξέρω ελληνικά αλλά δεν θέλω να το παραδεχτώ οπότε έβαλα μια τυχαία πρόταση σε μετάφραση για να φαίνομαι έξυπνος"
      Pure poetry.

    • @droidB1
      @droidB1 Рік тому +8

      @@samuelbedsole5089 specialy when he said "αυτό ακριβώς έκανα και ομολογώ ότι δεν μιλάω ελληνικά και δεν προσπαθούσα να φαίνομαι έξυπνος, απλώς κάνω ένα αστείο"

    • @eggiwegs
      @eggiwegs Рік тому +1

      εύθυμος

  • @prosimian
    @prosimian 4 роки тому +460

    I'm imagining a skinny old man in a white robe and a mustacheless-beard singing this

    • @aFoxyFox.
      @aFoxyFox. 4 роки тому +61

      Like the goat in your image?

    • @rmg6884
      @rmg6884 4 роки тому +44

      im imagining a young italian man in a red shirt and overalls with a red hat and a mustache rapping this

    • @yewest3105
      @yewest3105 4 роки тому +2

      Sacrificial Lamb I’m imaging an old man with a pencil moustache rapping this

    • @rmg6884
      @rmg6884 4 роки тому +8

      @@yewest3105 im imagining a middle-aged white man with a funky haircut rapping this in front of a crowd

    • @yewest3105
      @yewest3105 4 роки тому +4

      RemingMcGamer imaging a white guy with baggy jeans and a blue t shirt rapping this to a crowd in 800 BC

  • @Zenju__
    @Zenju__ 3 роки тому +139

    Who knows if it's historically accurate, but it's very interesting how the meters interact here.
    The poem is in the famous dactylic hexameter. In simple terms, we can consider it to mean there are 6 stressed vowels, or "beats".
    At the same time, the time signature of the music can be considered to be 2 bars of 4/4, meaning we have 8 beats per verse.
    That way, we have 6 beats for recitation and 2 for breathing.

  • @unquietthoughts
    @unquietthoughts Місяць тому +22

    When he said Ἕκτωρ δ᾽ ὡς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν, ἀμφ᾽ ἄρα μιν Τρώων ἄλοχοι θέον ἠδὲ θύγατρες · , I felt that 😊

  • @constantinesmith5972
    @constantinesmith5972 6 років тому +454

    This man spits fire 🔥🔥🔥

    • @jorixonian
      @jorixonian 4 роки тому +38

      Greek Fire.

    • @swamppigeons6101
      @swamppigeons6101 4 роки тому +17

      Imagine if this was the last thing the Italians in Greece heard during Ww2

    • @aaaapain
      @aaaapain 4 роки тому +7

      @@swamppigeons6101 🔥🔥🔥

    • @zakttbc
      @zakttbc 2 роки тому +4

      he doesnt spit fire, he spits φωτιά 🔥🔥🔥

    • @christophtsirigiotis768
      @christophtsirigiotis768 2 роки тому +1

      @@zakttbc More likely he spits ΠΥΡ

  • @Pmp_258
    @Pmp_258 Рік тому +70

    Homer doesent need autotune 🔥

    • @echoes5476
      @echoes5476 Рік тому +6

      Bro just dropped the hardest beat in the VIII century bc

    • @mo0n.childd
      @mo0n.childd Рік тому +1

      bro homer is/are the autor(s)

    • @Pmp_258
      @Pmp_258 Рік тому +1

      @@mo0n.childd ik

  • @President_BarackObama
    @President_BarackObama 2 роки тому +33

    Let’s appreciate the author of the video he travelled to Ancient Greece to record Homer singing just for us

  • @Battle-For-Emojis
    @Battle-For-Emojis Рік тому +41

    Love him or hate him. He's spitting some straight facts

  • @Whiteruthenian
    @Whiteruthenian 4 роки тому +56

    I don't understand a word, and yet I return here again and again.

  • @ishovedamicrowaveinamicrowave
    @ishovedamicrowaveinamicrowave Рік тому +71

    WE MAKING IT OUT OF ATHENS WITH THIS ONE💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

    • @onjodbro
      @onjodbro 11 місяців тому

      ON JOD BRO‼️‼️‼️💯💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😈😈😈😈😈😈👨🏿‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏿👨🏿‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏿👨🏿‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏿👨🏿‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏿👨🏿‍❤️‍💋‍👨🏿🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🤑🤑🤑🤑

    • @Dez_The_Fox
      @Dez_The_Fox 11 місяців тому +4

      ON ZEUS MY MAN!!!!!!!

  • @TheAnimatorOfOpallyon
    @TheAnimatorOfOpallyon 2 роки тому +34

    *Imagine this recitation in the middle of the day on a market with a crowd hearing it at ancient Greece.*

    • @kalecaire020
      @kalecaire020 2 роки тому +7

      Better: in a theater or facing a king

    • @erlinacobrado7947
      @erlinacobrado7947 3 місяці тому +2

      More probably a stoa beside the market at an afternoon, with long shadows of Ionian columns, smelly shellfish mixed with fragrant olives.

  • @CharlieS8593
    @CharlieS8593 Рік тому +32

    i cant believe the audio quality is this good considering it was recorded over 2500 years ago

  • @phxnt0m136
    @phxnt0m136 Рік тому +38

    when homer droppin again 🔥🔥

    • @Banane630
      @Banane630 Рік тому +8

      Sadly he died about 3000 years ago 🙏🙏😢

  • @AlexanderofMiletus
    @AlexanderofMiletus Місяць тому +18

    Gilgamesh has been real quiet since this dropped…

    • @tide7107
      @tide7107 Місяць тому +4

      Gilgamesh was dead when this dropped, obviously he'd be quiet 🤣

    • @S.I.A.B.
      @S.I.A.B. Місяць тому +3

      @@tide7107 BUt he dropped a second time dead when hearing this banger 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @RangersNation-qk4px
    @RangersNation-qk4px 16 днів тому +9

    My boy homer hasn’t came out with a new album yet in 2024🔥🔥🔥

  • @duncansalyer2999
    @duncansalyer2999 3 роки тому +76

    When is Homer going to visit Brazil?

    • @alternateperson6600
      @alternateperson6600 3 роки тому +11

      You meant to say when is he going to visit Hades?

    • @samisiddiqi5411
      @samisiddiqi5411 3 роки тому +14

      @@alternateperson6600 what's the difference

    • @samisiddiqi5411
      @samisiddiqi5411 3 роки тому +3

      Also what's with all these Homer and Brazil memes? Can y'all link me to some gold?

    • @michaelnepomuceno8218
      @michaelnepomuceno8218 Рік тому +2

      Word is he is coming for the next rock in rio.

  • @simigrewal1
    @simigrewal1 Рік тому +106

    Troy fans:😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺😂😂😂😂😂😂😨😨😨😨😱😱🤡🤡💩🤡🤡🤢🤢🤢🤢
    Achaean enjoyers: 🥵🥵🥵🥶🥶🥶🥶🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥😩😩😩😍😍💪💪💪💪💪💪

    • @johniscooliguess
      @johniscooliguess Рік тому +10

      That is why I stole your wife

    • @Pmp_258
      @Pmp_258 Рік тому +8

      ​@@johniscooliguess Paris be like

    • @jasonbernard5468
      @jasonbernard5468 Рік тому +2

      Dumbest/ funniest comment of all time

    • @OneTrueVikingbard
      @OneTrueVikingbard Рік тому +1

      Roman Empire: “we got the last laugh on those filthy Achaeans!”
      Byzantium: “oh you think so, filthy Latin heretic!”

  • @OHakkinen_
    @OHakkinen_ Рік тому +45

    Homer doesnt even need autotune 🔥🔥

  • @pixelatedpizza259
    @pixelatedpizza259 2 роки тому +80

    Fire. Homer was ahead of his time. Instrumental goes hard as fuck and Homers flow is sublime💯💯

  • @Misc741
    @Misc741 Рік тому +37

    Iliad, Book VI, line 237 onward.

    • @m1blasze107
      @m1blasze107 Рік тому +1

      Up

    • @JackLaRaclette
      @JackLaRaclette Рік тому +1

      ευχαριστώ !

    • @jaca2899
      @jaca2899 9 місяців тому +1

      thank you. I opened up book 6 in ancient greek, but none of the lines matched up with the lyrics. But now that I know to look at line 237, they match the lyrics

  • @mrstardian
    @mrstardian Рік тому +30

    Jokes aside, this is actually amazing. Homer and ancient greek has fascinated me for years and listening to this sung version of the iliad makes me so relaxed and kinda teleports me to ancient greece.

    • @fairsaa7975
      @fairsaa7975 Рік тому +2

      Just amazing how well all of this stuff is preserved. Imagine the world if all this mythology and history didn't exist... It'd be so different!

    • @mrstardian
      @mrstardian Рік тому +2

      @@fairsaa7975 Yup exactly, its amazing.

  • @eliashaynes3663
    @eliashaynes3663 3 роки тому +122

    Modern rappers: *exists*
    Homer: I shall end thou career.

    • @samisiddiqi5411
      @samisiddiqi5411 3 роки тому +8

      Έγο τελειώσουν η καριέρα σου!!

    • @olbiomoiros
      @olbiomoiros 3 роки тому +4

      Thine* (but that’s Middle English)

    • @dave5008
      @dave5008 3 роки тому

      @@olbiomoiros As far as I know, thou is for a subjective you, am I right?

    • @alemelvera
      @alemelvera 3 роки тому +1

      @@olbiomoiros Not "thine" since it means "yours". The correct correction for that guy's mistake is "thy" which means "your".

    • @alemelvera
      @alemelvera 3 роки тому

      @@dave5008 Yeah, it is. When you want to use the pronoun as an object you ought to use "thy"; "thou" is the subject form of the pronoun.

  • @gijane02
    @gijane02 Рік тому +40

    4:56 sounded like "ah, stupid guy, go on".

  • @FierceLord
    @FierceLord 2 місяці тому +32

    Absolute fire.

  • @HalOnKazoo
    @HalOnKazoo 3 місяці тому +28

    This hit so hard the classical period had to keep up 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @nycc_zaharaaaaaaa
    @nycc_zaharaaaaaaa Рік тому +26

    My mother always disapproved of his music, I wish I listened to it growing up 😔✊

    • @georgejungle138
      @georgejungle138 Рік тому +3

      She was a leftist who hated western civilization?

  • @offside_frag
    @offside_frag 10 місяців тому +28

    homer spitting straight bars

    • @jacobleonard1710
      @jacobleonard1710 5 місяців тому +1

      🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @dragonoid296
    @dragonoid296 2 роки тому +45

    the flow at 5:34 😈🔥🔥

  • @pushpak_koley
    @pushpak_koley 2 роки тому +20

    Hats off to the man who recorded this thousands of years ago....

  • @YesToSayYes
    @YesToSayYes 7 років тому +643

    Ἕκτωρ δ᾽ ὡς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν,
    ἀμφ᾽ ἄρα μιν Τρώων ἄλοχοι θέον ἠδὲ θύγατρες
    εἰρόμεναι παῖδάς τε κασιγνήτους τε ἔτας τε
    καὶ πόσιας: ὃ δ᾽ ἔπειτα θεοῖς εὔχεσθαι ἀνώγει
    πάσας ἑξείης: πολλῇσι δὲ κήδε᾽ ἐφῆπτο.
    ἀλλ᾽ ὅτε δὴ Πριάμοιο δόμον περικαλλέ᾽ ἵκανε
    ξεστῇς αἰθούσῃσι τετυγμένον: αὐτὰρ ἐν αὐτῷ
    πεντήκοντ᾽ ἔνεσαν θάλαμοι ξεστοῖο λίθοιο
    πλησίον ἀλλήλων δεδμημένοι, ἔνθα δὲ παῖδες
    κοιμῶντο Πριάμοιο παρὰ μνηστῇς ἀλόχοισι,
    κουράων δ᾽ ἑτέρωθεν ἐναντίοι ἔνδοθεν αὐλῆς
    δώδεκ᾽ ἔσαν τέγεοι θάλαμοι ξεστοῖο λίθοιο
    πλησίον ἀλλήλων δεδμημένοι, ἔνθα δὲ γαμβροὶ
    κοιμῶντο Πριάμοιο παρ᾽ αἰδοίῃς ἀλόχοισιν:
    ἔνθά οἱ ἠπιόδωρος ἐναντίη ἤλυθε μήτηρ
    Λαοδίκην ἐσάγουσα θυγατρῶν εἶδος ἀρίστην:
    ἔν τ᾽ ἄρα οἱ φῦ χειρὶ ἔπος τ᾽ ἔφατ᾽ ἔκ τ᾽ ὀνόμαζε:
    τέκνον τίπτε λιπὼν πόλεμον θρασὺν εἰλήλουθας;
    ἦ μάλα δὴ τείρουσι δυσώνυμοι υἷες Ἀχαιῶν
    μαρνάμενοι περὶ ἄστυ: σὲ δ᾽ ἐνθάδε θυμὸς ἀνῆκεν
    ἐλθόντ᾽ ἐξ ἄκρης πόλιος Διὶ χεῖρας ἀνασχεῖν.
    ἀλλὰ μέν᾽ ὄφρά κέ τοι μελιηδέα οἶνον ἐνείκω,
    ὡς σπείσῃς Διὶ πατρὶ καὶ ἄλλοις ἀθανάτοισι
    πρῶτον, ἔπειτα δὲ καὐτὸς ὀνήσεαι αἴ κε πίῃσθα.
    ἀνδρὶ δὲ κεκμηῶτι μένος μέγα οἶνος ἀέξει,
    ὡς τύνη κέκμηκας ἀμύνων σοῖσιν ἔτῃσι.
    δ᾽ ἠμείβετ᾽ ἔπειτα μέγας κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ:
    μή μοι οἶνον ἄειρε μελίφρονα πότνια μῆτερ,
    μή μ᾽ ἀπογυιώσῃς μένεος, ἀλκῆς τε λάθωμαι:
    χερσὶ δ᾽ ἀνίπτοισιν Διὶ λείβειν αἴθοπα οἶνον
    ἅζομαι: οὐδέ πῃ ἔστι κελαινεφέϊ Κρονίωνι
    αἵματι καὶ λύθρῳ πεπαλαγμένον εὐχετάασθαι.
    ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν πρὸς νηὸν Ἀθηναίης ἀγελείης
    ἔρχεο σὺν θυέεσσιν ἀολλίσσασα γεραιάς:
    πέπλον δ᾽, ὅς τίς τοι χαριέστατος ἠδὲ μέγιστος
    ἔστιν ἐνὶ μεγάρῳ καί τοι πολὺ φίλτατος αὐτῇ,
    τὸν θὲς Ἀθηναίης ἐπὶ γούνασιν ἠϋκόμοιο,
    καί οἱ ὑποσχέσθαι δυοκαίδεκα βοῦς ἐνὶ νηῷ
    ἤνις ἠκέστας ἱερευσέμεν, αἴ κ᾽ ἐλεήσῃ
    ἄστύ τε καὶ Τρώων ἀλόχους καὶ νήπια τέκνα,
    αἴ κεν Τυδέος υἱὸν ἀπόσχῃ Ἰλίου ἱρῆς
    ἄγριον αἰχμητὴν κρατερὸν μήστωρα φόβοιο.
    ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν πρὸς νηὸν Ἀθηναίης ἀγελείης
    ἔρχευ, ἐγὼ δὲ Πάριν μετελεύσομαι ὄφρα καλέσσω
    αἴ κ᾽ ἐθέλῃσ᾽ εἰπόντος ἀκουέμεν: ὥς κέ οἱ αὖθι
    γαῖα χάνοι: μέγα γάρ μιν Ὀλύμπιος ἔτρεφε πῆμα
    Τρωσί τε καὶ Πριάμῳ μεγαλήτορι τοῖό τε παισίν.
    εἰ κεῖνόν γε ἴδοιμι κατελθόντ᾽ Ἄϊδος εἴσω
    φαίην κε φρέν᾽ ἀτέρπου ὀϊζύος ἐκλελαθέσθαι.
    ὣς ἔφαθ᾽, ἣ δὲ μολοῦσα ποτὶ μέγαρ᾽ ἀμφιπόλοισι
    κέκλετο: ταὶ δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀόλλισσαν κατὰ ἄστυ γεραιάς.
    αὐτὴ δ᾽ ἐς θάλαμον κατεβήσετο κηώεντα,
    ἔνθ᾽ ἔσάν οἱ πέπλοι παμποίκιλα ἔργα γυναικῶν
    Σιδονίων, τὰς αὐτὸς Ἀλέξανδρος θεοειδὴς
    ἤγαγε Σιδονίηθεν ἐπιπλὼς εὐρέα πόντον,
    τὴν ὁδὸν ἣν Ἑλένην περ ἀνήγαγεν εὐπατέρειαν:
    τῶν ἕν᾽ ἀειραμένη Ἑκάβη φέρε δῶρον Ἀθήνῃ,
    ὃς κάλλιστος ἔην ποικίλμασιν ἠδὲ μέγιστος,
    ἀστὴρ δ᾽ ὣς ἀπέλαμπεν: ἔκειτο δὲ νείατος ἄλλων.
    βῆ δ᾽ ἰέναι, πολλαὶ δὲ μετεσσεύοντο γεραιαί.

    • @germanicgems
      @germanicgems 5 років тому +71

      Héktōr d᾽ hōs Skaiás te púlas kaì phēgòn híkanen,
      amph᾽ ára min Trṓōn álokhoi théon ēdè thúgatres
      eirόmenai paĩdás te kasignḗtous te étas te
      kaì pόsias: hò d᾽ épeita theoĩs eúkhesthai anṓgei
      pásas hexeíēs: pollē̃ͅsi dè kḗde᾽ ephē̃pto.
      all᾽ hóte dḕ Priámoio dόmon perikallé᾽ híkane
      xestē̃ͅs aithoúsēͅsi tetugménon: autàr en autō̃ͅ
      pentḗkont᾽ énesan thálamoi xestoĩo líthoio
      plēsíon allḗlōn dedmēménoi, éntha dè paĩdes
      koimō̃nto Priámoio parà mnēstē̃ͅs alόkhoisi,
      kouráōn d᾽ hetérōthen enantíoi éndothen aulē̃s
      dṓdek᾽ ésan tégeoi thálamoi xestoĩo líthoio
      plēsíon allḗlōn dedmēménoi, éntha dè gambroì
      koimō̃nto Priámoio par᾽ aidoíēͅs alόkhoisin:
      énthá hoi ēpiόdōros enantíē ḗluthe mḗtēr
      Laodíkēn eságousa thugatrō̃n eĩdos arístēn:
      én t᾽ ára hoi phũ kheirì épos t᾽ éphat᾽ ék t᾽ onόmaze:
      téknon típte lipṑn pόlemon thrasùn eilḗlouthas?
      ē̃ mála dḕ teírousi dusṓnumoi huĩes Akhaiō̃n
      marnámenoi perì ástu: sè d᾽ entháde thumòs anē̃ken
      elthόnt᾽ ex ákrēs pόlios Diì kheĩras anaskheĩn.
      allà mén᾽ óphrá ké toi meliēdéa oĩnon eneíkō,
      hōs speísēͅs Diì patrì kaì állois athanátoisi
      prō̃ton, épeita dè kautòs onḗseai aí ke píēͅstha.
      andrì dè kekmēō̃ti ménos méga oĩnos aéxei,
      hōs túnē kékmēkas amúnōn soĩsin étēͅsi.
      d᾽ ēmeíbet᾽ épeita mégas koruthaíolos Héktōr:
      mḗ moi oĩnon áeire melíphrona pόtnia mē̃ter,
      mḗ m᾽ apoguiṓsēͅs méneos, alkē̃s te láthōmai:
      khersì d᾽ aníptoisin Diì leíbein aíthopa oĩnon
      házomai: oudé pēͅ ésti kelainephéï Kroníōni
      haímati kaì lúthrōͅ pepalagménon eukhetáasthai.
      allà sù mèn pròs nēòn Athēnaíēs ageleíēs
      érkheo sùn thuéessin aollíssasa geraiás:
      péplon d᾽, hós tís toi khariéstatos ēdè mégistos
      éstin enì megárōͅ kaí toi polù phíltatos autē̃ͅ,
      tòn thès Athēnaíēs epì goúnasin ēükόmoio,
      kaí hoi huposkhésthai duokaídeka boũs enì nēō̃ͅ
      ḗnis ēkéstas hiereusémen, aí k᾽ eleḗsēͅ
      ástú te kaì Trṓōn alόkhous kaì nḗpia tékna,
      aí ken Tudéos huiòn apόskhēͅ Ilíou hirē̃s
      ágrion aikhmētḕn krateròn mḗstōra phόboio.
      allà sù mèn pròs nēòn Athēnaíēs ageleíēs
      érkheu, egṑ dè Párin meteleúsomai óphra kaléssō
      aí k᾽ ethélēͅs᾽ eipόntos akouémen: hṓs ké hoi aũthi
      gaĩa khánoi: méga gár min Olúmpios étrephe pē̃ma
      Trōsí te kaì Priámōͅ megalḗtori toĩό te paisín.
      ei keĩnόn ge ídoimi katelthόnt᾽ Áïdos eísō
      phaíēn ke phrén᾽ atérpou oïzúos eklelathésthai.
      hṑs éphath᾽, hḕ dè moloũsa potì mégar᾽ amphipόloisi
      kékleto: taì d᾽ ár᾽ aόllissan katà ástu geraiás.
      autḕ d᾽ es thálamon katebḗseto kēṓenta,
      énth᾽ ésán hoi péploi pampoíkila érga gunaikō̃n
      Sidoníōn, tàs autòs Aléxandros theoeidḕs
      ḗgage Sidoníēthen epiplṑs euréa pόnton,
      tḕn hodòn hḕn Helénēn per anḗgagen eupatéreian:
      tō̃n hén᾽ aeiraménē Hekábē phére dō̃ron Athḗnēͅ,
      hòs kállistos éēn poikílmasin ēdè mégistos,
      astḕr d᾽ hṑs apélampen: ékeito dè neíatos állōn.
      bē̃ d᾽ iénai, pollaì dè metesseúonto geraiaí

    • @FalseProphet501
      @FalseProphet501 4 роки тому +14

      @Clara J it starts at 6.237. Perseus is an amazing resource for working with Greek and Latin texts! I've linked to the bit where this recording starts! www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0133%3Abook%3D6%3Acard%3D232

    • @memeboi4421
      @memeboi4421 4 роки тому +10

      What

    • @DJ_NSG
      @DJ_NSG 4 роки тому +57

      @@memeboi4421 that's literally what he's saying, it's Ancient greek

    • @memeboi4421
      @memeboi4421 4 роки тому +6

      Oh I’m English so I haven’t got a clue what he he is saying

  • @yollano5352
    @yollano5352 3 роки тому +286

    When the DNA test says you're 0.1% greek

    • @hectorquinones5579
      @hectorquinones5579 3 роки тому +3

      You won 🏅

    • @luskas926
      @luskas926 3 роки тому +3

      For sure, wee all comes from then

    • @matthewjeffersonportorange7885
      @matthewjeffersonportorange7885 3 роки тому +1

      No I am actually 3 percent greek/albanian. You are waaaay off if you're talking about me lol

    • @tradcathgroyper7411
      @tradcathgroyper7411 3 роки тому +14

      @@matthewjeffersonportorange7885 Who said he was talking about you?

    • @zaraiwzara
      @zaraiwzara 2 роки тому +7

      @@matthewjeffersonportorange7885 culture is more valuable than dna, if a son of asians is adopted at two months of age by greeks, he is in fact, a greek, while if i secretly have 70% of greek dna, i am not a greek

  • @brschahredine121
    @brschahredine121 2 місяці тому +30

    homer was spitting back then💥💯🗣

  • @khalid1028
    @khalid1028 Рік тому +17

    Only the ancient Greeks knew the hype for this drop

  • @dervlaann
    @dervlaann 6 років тому +202

    I'm only just starting to explore Homer and don't even understand the language but this gives me the absolute CHILLS. Thank you!

    • @aFoxyFox.
      @aFoxyFox. 4 роки тому +1

      Where are you from? Your blood?

    • @dimitrisanastopoulos8957
      @dimitrisanastopoulos8957 4 роки тому

      We Greeks learn this shit at school. Not my fav....

    • @boobie34
      @boobie34 4 роки тому +2

      U must be mentally ill if this crap is giving u chills or u like this🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @boobie34
      @boobie34 4 роки тому

      @Kappazoid lmao dude!!!!!!!! im being sarcastic oh my gosh!!!!lmao nothing can outshine the mighty iliad

    • @onkeldattel8319
      @onkeldattel8319 3 роки тому +3

      @@boobie34 fck off

  • @Kirilo81
    @Kirilo81 3 місяці тому +59

    To all those "funny" persons with "the N word!"-comments: It's actually méga or mégas, forms of an adjective meaning "big, huge, great"

  • @julia_moonburn
    @julia_moonburn 4 роки тому +68

    Had I heard it back in my university years, I would've studied Homer with much more enthusiasm. This is amazing, thank you.

  • @zlizek6093
    @zlizek6093 8 місяців тому +19

    why is the piano so fucking good though

  • @smv8102
    @smv8102 4 роки тому +30

    This is the very tune used in some ancient Indian songs, this just shows how connected the old world was! Mind blown.

    • @smv8102
      @smv8102 4 роки тому +5

      @@lovrohrkac1437 that might be the case. The tune is perfect for an epic.

    • @jwadaow
      @jwadaow 3 роки тому +7

      Alexander famously got as far as India and there are stories of cultural remnants as a result.

    • @smv8102
      @smv8102 3 роки тому +3

      @@jwadaow Yes, that could be the reason too...

    • @jphanson
      @jphanson Рік тому +11

      Iliad was composed before Alexander, but Sanskrit and Homeric Greek are in the same language family. These ancient cultures are indeed related, but from a father more ancient than history itself.

    • @jeremias-serus
      @jeremias-serus Рік тому +2

      @@lovrohrkac1437 The guy singing isn't Indian. His name is Silvio Zinsstag, a Latin given name and a Germanic surname. His dad's given name is Gerard, which is a French given name. He just teaches at an Indian university. Same as how at my American university there are professors who are not American.

  • @jeffreykalb9752
    @jeffreykalb9752 8 днів тому +4

    Can you imagine listening to this being recited for 4 hours?

  • @ComradePanzer
    @ComradePanzer 2 місяці тому +16

    Man was spitting bars.

  • @imaninamakhtar896
    @imaninamakhtar896 4 роки тому +202

    1:06 "Oh so sexy"

  • @BluJean6692
    @BluJean6692 3 роки тому +28

    I would absolutely donate to crowdfund/pateron a full and more developed version of the whole epic. I think it would be an absolute smash hit worldwide...

  • @austriahungary4935
    @austriahungary4935 2 роки тому +10

    Fact: When you hear an old music like this. you feel a "Strange" nostalgia even If you didnt lived there, in that century that makes you want to Live there.

  • @benobeproductions1470
    @benobeproductions1470 2 роки тому +11

    How Homer must be at the peak of his career

  • @nicoarrigoni3898
    @nicoarrigoni3898 7 місяців тому +13

    Can you imagine sitting at a feast in Ancient Greece and listening as the bard sheds light on such epic adventures? Incredible

  • @Dez_The_Fox
    @Dez_The_Fox 11 місяців тому +13

    most fire EP of the 7th century.

  • @josephrainer6669
    @josephrainer6669 8 років тому +45

    Perfect. The aspirated and non aspirated consonants! That's how it might have sounded in the bard's time.

  • @becc_snipe
    @becc_snipe 2 роки тому +40

    Most Greek people today don't know that ancient Greek sounds completely different than modern Greek which is sad

    • @emperorqinzong6904
      @emperorqinzong6904 2 роки тому

      What happened to them

    • @becc_snipe
      @becc_snipe 2 роки тому

      @@emperorqinzong6904 Sorry but i didn't understand the question

    • @emperorqinzong6904
      @emperorqinzong6904 2 роки тому +1

      @@becc_snipe what happened to ancient Greek language why did it change

    • @becc_snipe
      @becc_snipe 2 роки тому +12

      @@emperorqinzong6904 Well, time mostly? And Roman and Turkish occupation.

    • @luckyabdurrahman1085
      @luckyabdurrahman1085 2 роки тому +5

      ancient greek is also a tonal language right? I really wonder what happened that it turned into a toneless language, the vice versa happened to the mandarin language, old chinese is toneless and yet now it's a tonal language

  • @kyelaurenson7912
    @kyelaurenson7912 3 роки тому +52

    When the mushrooms markos gave you earlier start to kick in and you accidentally recite the whole illiad:

  • @alyssa-tj4ix
    @alyssa-tj4ix 2 роки тому +12

    nobody spits fire like this anymore

  • @lucabernardeschi3064
    @lucabernardeschi3064 4 роки тому +73

    Nobody
    Me at 3AM when everybody is sleeping :

  • @SharkThe86
    @SharkThe86 9 місяців тому +31

    WE GETTING HELEN OF TROY WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @Spireforce
    @Spireforce 8 місяців тому +22

    this actually unironically goes hard.

  • @uer9071
    @uer9071 3 роки тому +82

    Can't wait to accidently pronounce this wrong and summon a demon.

    • @bbirda1287
      @bbirda1287 3 роки тому +14

      No problem, you only gotta worry about that with Latin, or Infernal. Here, you just have to be aware of giving the gods their proper due and not insulting them. Or getting turned into a tree or a stag or a mirror.

    • @Itsrunzo
      @Itsrunzo 3 роки тому +5

      @@bbirda1287 yeah Latin summons demon Greek summons gods 😂

  • @mjr_schneider
    @mjr_schneider 4 роки тому +36

    Homer dropping some epic bars

  • @TheNineteenthCentury
    @TheNineteenthCentury 2 місяці тому +7

    *"Once I heard a scholar with a fine voice read aloud from the Greek poet Homer, and I remember that the sound of the rolling lines seemed to make my blood stand still."*
    Sir Henry Rider Haggard wrote the above lines in KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1885), an adventure novel whose battle scenes have been compared to those found in Homer's ILIAD. Haggard, who wrote no less than seventeen sequels to KING SOLOMON'S MINES, would also go on to write THE WORLD'S DESIRE (1890) in collaboration with Andrew Lang (who also translated Homer into English prose). THE WORLD'S DESIRE is a sequel to the ODYSSEY, and features Odysseus and Helen travelling to Egypt.

  • @eternalblood811
    @eternalblood811 Рік тому +12

    Trojans been real quiet since this dropped…

  • @radicalcentrist4990
    @radicalcentrist4990 Рік тому +13

    At 28:47 he says "Tekken". I knew my guy was a gamer.

  • @Annihilated64-13yearsago
    @Annihilated64-13yearsago Рік тому +11

    3:20 GEEZ HOMER

  • @meusisto
    @meusisto Рік тому +13

    It's a pity that it is already 7 years and the author didn't come back.

  • @Kret-o
    @Kret-o 4 місяці тому +61

    “TURN UP THAT ILLIAD HECTOR🗣️”

  • @818deadboys
    @818deadboys 3 місяці тому +18

    I came here to find that when you give Homer the aux cord meme but it is very nice

  • @kipi5181
    @kipi5181 Місяць тому +46

    shit is fire

  • @sussusamogus8860
    @sussusamogus8860 2 роки тому +23

    As a Greek, all i understand is
    Absolutely nothing lol

  • @bryanwisri8661
    @bryanwisri8661 4 роки тому +90

    This should be in the next gta

    • @ncmariofan3605
      @ncmariofan3605 4 роки тому +17

      All you had to do, was follow the damn Trojan horse CJ!

    • @AlxzAlec
      @AlxzAlec 4 роки тому +3

      Cheese Block greece fm

  • @onxy4549
    @onxy4549 4 роки тому +23

    He spittin straight fax

  • @artawhirler
    @artawhirler 4 роки тому +46

    What an amazing performance! I could never imagine what an ancient Greek "rhapsode" (professional poetry singer) might have sounded like until I heard this! Thank you so much!

  • @hmldjr
    @hmldjr 7 років тому +109

    When are you going to do the whole poem?

    • @anti-glassesgang7622
      @anti-glassesgang7622 4 роки тому +8

      @Blue Sky Tree so whats the problem with that

    • @onca51
      @onca51 4 роки тому +4

      @Blue Sky Tree in the age of podcasts I don't think that's a big ask

    • @shadysam7161
      @shadysam7161 3 роки тому +1

      while you're at it, make the singer read every single major religious book while reading the entire iliad.

  • @ladyofshalott4780
    @ladyofshalott4780 8 років тому +75

    Great to have the music, which perfectly complements your delivery. There's a real sense of excitement and involvement in the unfolding recital. You are obviously a natural storyteller, as well as a talented performer. All that's missing is the text on screen - any chance of adding it? Thank you!

  • @lilmansnake2006
    @lilmansnake2006 Рік тому +23

    I'm 16 and still this smart. If you listen closely between the lines, you can hear Homer opening his mouth and breathing to sing

    • @ixeds
      @ixeds Рік тому +5

      homer isn't the one singing,homer lived 800 BCE (800 years before jesus was born)

    • @eduardsnikolovskis8981
      @eduardsnikolovskis8981 Рік тому +1

      ​@@imlostatseadontbotherme2060idk man I'm not sure

    • @zxlrxv2301
      @zxlrxv2301 Рік тому +1

      El que está cantando es Silvio ziingtag ( no se cómo se escribe) Homero murió hace millones de años

    • @ixeds
      @ixeds Рік тому

      @@imlostatseadontbotherme2060 i hope you're being sarcastic

    • @Haha__
      @Haha__ 8 місяців тому

      ​@@zxlrxv2301No, Homer is still alive. People had longer lifespans back then, due to their healthy medeterrainean diet.

  • @ppappenpineappleapplepen3409
    @ppappenpineappleapplepen3409 4 роки тому +81

    Are you here for this 0:59 and 1:06?

    • @isaacsamuel9520
      @isaacsamuel9520 4 роки тому +9

      Whats in 0:59 ?

    • @ppappenpineappleapplepen3409
      @ppappenpineappleapplepen3409 4 роки тому +3

      @@isaacsamuel9520 Listen carefully.

    • @lumagatto1191
      @lumagatto1191 4 роки тому +18

      Im here for The Mighy Hikaaanen

    • @ikanu6906
      @ikanu6906 4 роки тому +7

      @@lumagatto1191 AAASHASHHASHASHASHASHASHASHASHAHHAASAHSHASHAASGHAS

    • @domenicoarena6853
      @domenicoarena6853 4 роки тому +5

      @@lumagatto1191 🇬🇷Hektōr d'hōs Skaiàs
      te pùla kai phēgòn
      Hikaaanen🏛

  • @geenezeta
    @geenezeta 4 роки тому +35

    I'm mesmerized by this recitation! I'm learning Ancient Greek, and things like this make me to study harder, great job bro!

  • @serrmanu4456
    @serrmanu4456 3 роки тому +10

    asked by my MA professor to listen to it for 6 minutes.... probably this is where the idiom " It's all Greek to me" was derived from .:)

  • @CanadianBostonian
    @CanadianBostonian Рік тому +23

    37:00 the worst part because it ends

  • @essaieducation3476
    @essaieducation3476 4 роки тому +20

    He was my tutor once upon a time. The best. Thank you Silvio.

  • @Player8387
    @Player8387 Місяць тому +15

    Bro throwing those 8th BC beats 💀💀💀

  • @goatman4484
    @goatman4484 11 місяців тому +9

    Only OG's remember when this came out 2727 years ago

  • @kylefoley76
    @kylefoley76 22 дні тому +11

    This starts at line 237

  • @robertarmitage1899
    @robertarmitage1899 7 років тому +230

    It would be interesting to know if a bard would have used variation of pitch, pace and tone to add dramatic impetus to the story. It is hard to imagine that the whole thing would have recited in a monotonous sameness. People had longer attention spans, true, but the whole thing? Saying that, I enjoyed the recording. My question being stimulated by speculation, not boredom.

    • @edbriggs6511
      @edbriggs6511 6 років тому +57

      I tend to think that the incantational aspect we experience in this recording would leave the imagination greater freedom to 'live' the narrative rather than restrict listeners' concentration. But I may be in a group of one.

    • @Xezlec
      @Xezlec 6 років тому +60

      It's probably better if you understand the words.

    • @biggusdickus2643
      @biggusdickus2643 5 років тому +17

      This is, I believe, the 'standard' way of reciting hexameter in our day/part of the world. When reading prose you emphasise the accentuation, and some speculate that the rhapsodes also did this in ancient Greece, when reciting. It is possible to do but it is difficult, for me at least. It may sound a bit off and I personally prefer this pronunciation.
      Here is a link to a reciting of the Iliad I.1-16 by Thomas Olander, associate professor of the institute of nordic and linguistic studies at the University of Copenhagen. This sounds actually very good.
      www.sproghistorie.dk/files/ilias.mp3

    • @lordgronk1596
      @lordgronk1596 5 років тому +18

      Ed Briggs I do seem to remember in one of the socratic dialogues, the one with the rhapsode, there is a portion where one of the participants mentions how good rhapsodes would try to visualise the portion of the poem they were reciting, and recite it in a manner that would be akin to describing action one is witnessing.

    • @riccardocuciniello2044
      @riccardocuciniello2044 4 роки тому +1

      I'm actually trap-dancing to it.
      But just for the memes, sorry
      * back to Plato :( *

  • @traktortarik8224
    @traktortarik8224 2 роки тому +10

    This scene in the Iliad genuinely always makes me cry. It’s when Hector comes to Troy and tells his wife Andromache that Troy is destined to fall, and he and his infant son Astyanax will die, and she will be dragged off into slavery.

  • @surajitsengupta9047
    @surajitsengupta9047 5 років тому +29

    Hypnotic - even trippy !! I am waiting for the day when the whole of Iliad and Odyssey will be available.

  • @thestealthyassassintsa7403
    @thestealthyassassintsa7403 3 роки тому +40

    Im a big fan of HOMER! CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR HIS NEWEST MUSIC!

  • @ulfricsombrage
    @ulfricsombrage 2 роки тому +11

    We need a complete recitation of Homer by this man ! This is absolutely incredible.

  • @mrmakrin21
    @mrmakrin21 3 роки тому +12

    Homie really speaking in reverse

  • @MartineFelton
    @MartineFelton Рік тому +23

    3:21 can believe it 😢

    • @yiannis_luk7
      @yiannis_luk7 11 місяців тому

      Accordind to the original, he said "mega woinon", even though it sounds differently

  • @pardieupopper339
    @pardieupopper339 7 років тому +34

    Well done. Your reading brings out the rhythm of the hexameters so well. Would love to hear more Homer and more Ancient Greek. Thanks.

  • @pablothecreator7251
    @pablothecreator7251 2 роки тому +7

    unironically a good song

  • @DerEi1290
    @DerEi1290 Рік тому +24

    Can’t wait for his brand new album 😍😍😍👍👍👍

    • @kaspersaldell
      @kaspersaldell Рік тому +1

      I hate to be the one to tell you this, but he died recently...

    • @isaakchatelet7260
      @isaakchatelet7260 Рік тому

      @@kaspersaldell really?

    • @lneedtherapy
      @lneedtherapy Рік тому

      @@kaspersaldell yeah like last year I think

  • @extenebrislux
    @extenebrislux 6 років тому +67

    OMG do more please!
    the first verses of the Iliad would be greatly appreciated.

    • @AnonikAnonikos
      @AnonikAnonikos 3 роки тому +1

      Don't break 2 Commandment.

    • @ulfricsombrage
      @ulfricsombrage 2 роки тому +4

      @@AnonikAnonikos Sorry, but I am an european, not a jew. So I am free to love Homer and the gods.

    • @eyeless_person
      @eyeless_person 2 роки тому

      @@AnonikAnonikos ?