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 Před 7 lety +3317

    It's my son ! Very proud of him !

  • @rustystealberg4198
    @rustystealberg4198 Před 4 lety +1546

    Mario is straight up reciting the iliad in ancient Greek

  • @ethanhu3236
    @ethanhu3236 Před 4 lety +2153

    Love him or hate him, he be spitting straight facts

  • @Matrix-tx5ff
    @Matrix-tx5ff Před 4 lety +806

    5:35 is straight fire 🔥

  • @tahamohammad1741
    @tahamohammad1741 Před 3 lety +1528

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

  • @lostathenian1836
    @lostathenian1836 Před 4 lety +2659

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

    • @prosimian
      @prosimian Před 4 lety +16

      @Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan what???

    • @prosimian
      @prosimian Před 4 lety +4

      @Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan who is Peterson

    • @epicgangnamstyle8783
      @epicgangnamstyle8783 Před 4 lety +52

      @@prosimian Joe mama

    • @lostathenian1836
      @lostathenian1836 Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @JanKwapis
      @JanKwapis Před 4 lety +7

      Homer is my eldest and favourite grandson.

  • @CapitalTeeth
    @CapitalTeeth Před 4 lety +892

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

    • @yourboyskeeter
      @yourboyskeeter Před 4 lety +129

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

    • @elumayo4090
      @elumayo4090 Před 4 lety +149

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

    • @RexOrbis
      @RexOrbis Před 4 lety +71

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

    • @lithuanianwarlord2324
      @lithuanianwarlord2324 Před 4 lety +35

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

    • @JulianSki
      @JulianSki Před 4 lety +48

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

  • @user-zu6hm6vw2q
    @user-zu6hm6vw2q Před 7 lety +1404

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

    • @lahaine8026
      @lahaine8026 Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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.

  • @mohamadahmad5973
    @mohamadahmad5973 Před 4 lety +758

    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 Před 4 lety +47

      The internet is quite the place isn't it?

    • @mohamadahmad5973
      @mohamadahmad5973 Před 4 lety +32

      @@shadysam7161 It is, and I love it.

    • @user-vf5vo7bh7v
      @user-vf5vo7bh7v Před 2 lety +7

      To be more precise, an epic, not a poem

    • @evilweevil58008
      @evilweevil58008 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @justmart4455
      @justmart4455 Před 2 lety +9

      Not a waste then, innit?

  • @superguy199
    @superguy199 Před 2 lety +493

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

  • @sheevboi1872
    @sheevboi1872 Před 4 lety +767

    Ancient Greek rapping

  • @Zenju__
    @Zenju__ Před 3 lety +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.

  • @droidB1
    @droidB1 Před rokem +87

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

    • @airplanedude3103
      @airplanedude3103 Před rokem +1

      Did he actually say that?

    • @droidB1
      @droidB1 Před rokem

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

    • @samuelbedsole5089
      @samuelbedsole5089 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +1

      εύθυμος

  • @constantinesmith5972
    @constantinesmith5972 Před 6 lety +454

    This man spits fire 🔥🔥🔥

    • @jorixonian
      @jorixonian Před 4 lety +38

      Greek Fire.

    • @swamppigeons6101
      @swamppigeons6101 Před 4 lety +17

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

    • @aaaapain
      @aaaapain Před 4 lety +7

      @@swamppigeons6101 🔥🔥🔥

    • @zakttbc
      @zakttbc Před 2 lety +4

      he doesnt spit fire, he spits φωτιά 🔥🔥🔥

    • @christophtsirigiotis768
      @christophtsirigiotis768 Před 2 lety +1

      @@zakttbc More likely he spits ΠΥΡ

  • @unquietthoughts
    @unquietthoughts Před měsícem +27

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

  • @Pmp_258
    @Pmp_258 Před rokem +70

    Homer doesent need autotune 🔥

    • @echoes5476
      @echoes5476 Před rokem +6

      Bro just dropped the hardest beat in the VIII century bc

    • @mo0n.childd
      @mo0n.childd Před rokem +1

      bro homer is/are the autor(s)

    • @Pmp_258
      @Pmp_258 Před rokem +1

      @@mo0n.childd ik

  • @President_BarackObama
    @President_BarackObama Před 2 lety +33

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

  • @yollano5352
    @yollano5352 Před 3 lety +286

    When the DNA test says you're 0.1% greek

    • @hectorquinones5579
      @hectorquinones5579 Před 3 lety +3

      You won 🏅

    • @luskas926
      @luskas926 Před 3 lety +3

      For sure, wee all comes from then

    • @matthewjeffersonportorange7885
      @matthewjeffersonportorange7885 Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @tradcathgroyper7411
      @tradcathgroyper7411 Před 3 lety +14

      @@matthewjeffersonportorange7885 Who said he was talking about you?

    • @zaraiwzara
      @zaraiwzara Před 2 lety +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

  • @prosimian
    @prosimian Před 4 lety +460

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

    • @aFoxyFox.
      @aFoxyFox. Před 4 lety +61

      Like the goat in your image?

    • @rmg6884
      @rmg6884 Před 4 lety +44

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

    • @yewest3105
      @yewest3105 Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @rmg6884
      @rmg6884 Před 4 lety +8

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

    • @yewest3105
      @yewest3105 Před 4 lety +4

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

  • @phxnt0m136
    @phxnt0m136 Před rokem +38

    when homer droppin again 🔥🔥

    • @Banane630
      @Banane630 Před rokem +8

      Sadly he died about 3000 years ago 🙏🙏😢

  • @KonradsEmpire
    @KonradsEmpire Před 3 měsíci +32

    Absolute fire.

  • @Whiteruthenian
    @Whiteruthenian Před 4 lety +56

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

  • @gijane02
    @gijane02 Před rokem +40

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

  • @CharlieS8593
    @CharlieS8593 Před rokem +32

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

  • @TheAnimatorOfOpallyon
    @TheAnimatorOfOpallyon Před 2 lety +34

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

    • @kalecaire020
      @kalecaire020 Před 2 lety +7

      Better: in a theater or facing a king

    • @erlinacobrado7947
      @erlinacobrado7947 Před 4 měsíci +2

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

  • @simigrewal1
    @simigrewal1 Před rokem +106

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

    • @johniscooliguess
      @johniscooliguess Před rokem +10

      That is why I stole your wife

    • @Pmp_258
      @Pmp_258 Před rokem +8

      ​@@johniscooliguess Paris be like

    • @jasonbernard5468
      @jasonbernard5468 Před rokem +2

      Dumbest/ funniest comment of all time

    • @OneTrueVikingbard
      @OneTrueVikingbard Před rokem +1

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

  • @ishovedamicrowaveinamicrowave

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

    • @onjodbro
      @onjodbro Před 11 měsíci

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

    • @Dez_The_Fox
      @Dez_The_Fox Před 11 měsíci +4

      ON ZEUS MY MAN!!!!!!!

  • @RangersNation-qk4px
    @RangersNation-qk4px Před 28 dny +11

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

  • @Battle-For-Emojis
    @Battle-For-Emojis Před rokem +41

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

  • @brschahredine121
    @brschahredine121 Před 3 měsíci +31

    homer was spitting back then💥💯🗣

  • @AlexanderofMiletus
    @AlexanderofMiletus Před 2 měsíci +21

    Gilgamesh has been real quiet since this dropped…

    • @tide7107
      @tide7107 Před 2 měsíci +6

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

    • @S.I.A.B.
      @S.I.A.B. Před měsícem +4

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

  • @HalOnKazoo
    @HalOnKazoo Před 4 měsíci +28

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

  • @offside_frag
    @offside_frag Před 10 měsíci +28

    homer spitting straight bars

    • @jacobleonard1710
      @jacobleonard1710 Před 6 měsíci +2

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

  • @pixelatedpizza259
    @pixelatedpizza259 Před 2 lety +80

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

  • @pushpak_koley
    @pushpak_koley Před 2 lety +21

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

  • @reception1087
    @reception1087 Před 11 dny +9

    this is a certified hood classic 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @ComradePanzer
    @ComradePanzer Před 2 měsíci +16

    Man was spitting bars.

  • @mrstardian
    @mrstardian Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +2

      @@fairsaa7975 Yup exactly, its amazing.

  • @OHakkinen_
    @OHakkinen_ Před rokem +45

    Homer doesnt even need autotune 🔥🔥

  • @zlizek6093
    @zlizek6093 Před 9 měsíci +19

    why is the piano so fucking good though

  • @Kirilo81
    @Kirilo81 Před 4 měsíci +60

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

  • @khalid1028
    @khalid1028 Před rokem +17

    Only the ancient Greeks knew the hype for this drop

  • @dervlaann
    @dervlaann Před 6 lety +203

    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. Před 4 lety +1

      Where are you from? Your blood?

    • @dimitrisanastopoulos8957
      @dimitrisanastopoulos8957 Před 4 lety

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

    • @boobie34
      @boobie34 Před 4 lety +2

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

    • @boobie34
      @boobie34 Před 4 lety

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

    • @onkeldattel8319
      @onkeldattel8319 Před 3 lety +3

      @@boobie34 fck off

  • @duncansalyer2999
    @duncansalyer2999 Před 3 lety +76

    When is Homer going to visit Brazil?

  • @imaninamakhtar896
    @imaninamakhtar896 Před 4 lety +203

    1:06 "Oh so sexy"

  • @Dez_The_Fox
    @Dez_The_Fox Před 11 měsíci +13

    most fire EP of the 7th century.

  • @nycc_zaharaaaaaaa
    @nycc_zaharaaaaaaa Před rokem +27

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

    • @georgejungle138
      @georgejungle138 Před rokem +3

      She was a leftist who hated western civilization?

  • @dragonoid296
    @dragonoid296 Před 2 lety +45

    the flow at 5:34 😈🔥🔥

  • @jeffreykalb9752
    @jeffreykalb9752 Před 20 dny +6

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

  • @Spireforce
    @Spireforce Před 9 měsíci +23

    this actually unironically goes hard.

  • @julia_moonburn
    @julia_moonburn Před 4 lety +68

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

  • @Misc741
    @Misc741 Před rokem +38

    Iliad, Book VI, line 237 onward.

    • @m1blasze107
      @m1blasze107 Před rokem +1

      Up

    • @JackLaRaclette
      @JackLaRaclette Před rokem +1

      ευχαριστώ !

    • @jaca2899
      @jaca2899 Před 9 měsíci +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

  • @eliashaynes3663
    @eliashaynes3663 Před 3 lety +122

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

    • @samisiddiqi5411
      @samisiddiqi5411 Před 3 lety +8

      Έγο τελειώσουν η καριέρα σου!!

    • @olbiomoiros
      @olbiomoiros Před 3 lety +4

      Thine* (but that’s Middle English)

    • @dave5008
      @dave5008 Před 3 lety

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

    • @alemelvera
      @alemelvera Před 3 lety +1

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

    • @alemelvera
      @alemelvera Před 3 lety

      @@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.

  • @nicoarrigoni3898
    @nicoarrigoni3898 Před 7 měsíci +13

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

  • @benobeproductions1470
    @benobeproductions1470 Před 2 lety +12

    How Homer must be at the peak of his career

  • @onxy4549
    @onxy4549 Před 4 lety +23

    He spittin straight fax

  • @mjr_schneider
    @mjr_schneider Před 4 lety +36

    Homer dropping some epic bars

  • @BluJean6692
    @BluJean6692 Před 3 lety +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...

  • @smv8102
    @smv8102 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +5

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

    • @jwadaow
      @jwadaow Před 3 lety +7

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

    • @smv8102
      @smv8102 Před 3 lety +3

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

    • @jphanson
      @jphanson Před rokem +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 Před rokem +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.

  • @austriahungary4935
    @austriahungary4935 Před 2 lety +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.

  • @josephrainer6669
    @josephrainer6669 Před 8 lety +45

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

  • @tasminjones4982
    @tasminjones4982 Před 11 dny +5

    This gives the catchiest lyrics in modern day pop music a serious run for their money.

  • @Annihilated64-13yearsago
    @Annihilated64-13yearsago Před 2 lety +11

    3:20 GEEZ HOMER

  • @blu9700
    @blu9700 Před 20 dny +6

    Troy been real quite ever since this dropped

  • @becc_snipe
    @becc_snipe Před 2 lety +40

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

    • @emperorqinzong6904
      @emperorqinzong6904 Před 2 lety

      What happened to them

    • @becc_snipe
      @becc_snipe Před 2 lety

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

    • @emperorqinzong6904
      @emperorqinzong6904 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @becc_snipe
      @becc_snipe Před 2 lety +12

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

    • @luckyabdurrahman1085
      @luckyabdurrahman1085 Před 2 lety +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

  • @alyssa-tj4ix
    @alyssa-tj4ix Před 2 lety +12

    nobody spits fire like this anymore

  • @sussusamogus8860
    @sussusamogus8860 Před 2 lety +24

    As a Greek, all i understand is
    Absolutely nothing lol

  • @seafoaaam
    @seafoaaam Před 2 lety +7

    ngl this unironically slaps

  • @essaieducation3476
    @essaieducation3476 Před 4 lety +20

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

  • @radicalcentrist4990
    @radicalcentrist4990 Před rokem +13

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

  • @pablothecreator7251
    @pablothecreator7251 Před 2 lety +7

    unironically a good song

  • @eternalblood811
    @eternalblood811 Před rokem +13

    Trojans been real quiet since this dropped…

  • @kipi5181
    @kipi5181 Před měsícem +47

    shit is fire

  • @TheNineteenthCentury
    @TheNineteenthCentury Před 2 měsíci +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.

  • @helpnoname7588
    @helpnoname7588 Před 5 lety +199

    how did he sing for 37 minutes straight

    • @dhanuz1981
      @dhanuz1981 Před 4 lety +19

      help no name: how did he sing for 37 minutes straight
      Oogway: I dont know

    • @shadysam7161
      @shadysam7161 Před 3 lety +29

      most audiobook channels would traumatize you.

    • @rabbinemo6402
      @rabbinemo6402 Před 3 lety +2

      @@shadysam7161 how tho?

    • @shadysam7161
      @shadysam7161 Před 3 lety +10

      @@rabbinemo6402 Most of them read books that take like literally a hundred million hours long, and he was worried about how the person in this video managed to sing this song for 37 minutes.

    • @rabbinemo6402
      @rabbinemo6402 Před 3 lety +4

      @@shadysam7161 maybe they would just cut and edit their audio to make it seem like they read it in 10 hours?

  • @meusisto
    @meusisto Před rokem +14

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

  • @CanadianBostonian
    @CanadianBostonian Před rokem +23

    37:00 the worst part because it ends

  • @YesToSayYes
    @YesToSayYes Před 7 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety +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 Před 4 lety +10

      What

    • @DJ_NSG
      @DJ_NSG Před 4 lety +57

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

    • @memeboi4421
      @memeboi4421 Před 4 lety +6

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

  • @geenezeta
    @geenezeta Před 4 lety +35

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

  • @Player8387
    @Player8387 Před měsícem +17

    Bro throwing those 8th BC beats 💀💀💀

  • @traktortarik8224
    @traktortarik8224 Před 2 lety +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.

  • @bryanwisri8661
    @bryanwisri8661 Před 4 lety +90

    This should be in the next gta

    • @ncmariofan3605
      @ncmariofan3605 Před 4 lety +17

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

    • @AlxzAlec
      @AlxzAlec Před 4 lety +3

      Cheese Block greece fm

  • @kylefoley76
    @kylefoley76 Před měsícem +12

    This starts at line 237

  • @surajitsengupta9047
    @surajitsengupta9047 Před 6 lety +29

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

  • @kyelaurenson7912
    @kyelaurenson7912 Před 4 lety +53

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

  • @mikeferguson4084
    @mikeferguson4084 Před rokem +16

    0:39 is when singing starts

  • @818deadboys
    @818deadboys Před 3 měsíci +18

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

  • @ulfricsombrage
    @ulfricsombrage Před 2 lety +11

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

  • @ladyofshalott4780
    @ladyofshalott4780 Před 8 lety +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!

  • @robertarmitage1899
    @robertarmitage1899 Před 7 lety +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 Před 6 lety +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 Před 6 lety +60

      It's probably better if you understand the words.

    • @biggusdickus2643
      @biggusdickus2643 Před 6 lety +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 Před 5 lety +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 Před 4 lety +1

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

  • @SharkThe86
    @SharkThe86 Před 9 měsíci +31

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

  • @uer9071
    @uer9071 Před 3 lety +83

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

    • @bbirda1287
      @bbirda1287 Před 3 lety +15

      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 Před 3 lety +6

      @@bbirda1287 yeah Latin summons demon Greek summons gods 😂

  • @eugeniakatsafadou331
    @eugeniakatsafadou331 Před 16 dny +10

    I found that he starts in book 6 at line 235 and goes on until line 7 of book 7.
    Unfortunately, it won't let me post the comment with all the text copied so you'll have to google it yourself.

  • @goatman4484
    @goatman4484 Před 11 měsíci +9

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

  • @lilmansnake2006
    @lilmansnake2006 Před rokem +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 Před rokem +5

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

    • @eduardsnikolovskis8981
      @eduardsnikolovskis8981 Před rokem +1

      ​@@imlostatseadontbotherme2060idk man I'm not sure

    • @zxlrxv2301
      @zxlrxv2301 Před rokem +1

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

    • @ixeds
      @ixeds Před rokem

      @@imlostatseadontbotherme2060 i hope you're being sarcastic

    • @Haha__
      @Haha__ Před 8 měsíci

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

  • @lucabernardeschi3064
    @lucabernardeschi3064 Před 4 lety +73

    Nobody
    Me at 3AM when everybody is sleeping :

  • @mrmakrin21
    @mrmakrin21 Před 3 lety +12

    Homie really speaking in reverse

  • @molleerox
    @molleerox Před 2 lety +5

    This is a certified hood classic.

  • @artawhirler
    @artawhirler Před 4 lety +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!

  • @zchsk57779
    @zchsk57779 Před rokem +14

    Damn Luigi got them bars