Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Greek and Roman Verse: Audio-Visually Enhanced

Greek and Roman Verse: Audio-Visually Enhanced
Greek and Roman Verse
The aim so far has been to produce, in a reasonable time period, a free, accessible, spoken version, with moderately good audio quality and linked to a metrically tagged text.  Accordingly I’ve tried to follow only a couple of very basic requirements:
  • a recognizable, consistent hexameter rhythm
  • a tolerable effort at reconstructed pronunciation (to the extent that it exists for Homeric Greek) with a very conservative pitch accent, and with my instinctive stress accent restrained to the best of my ability.

The Iliad:

The Odyssey:

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