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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It's my son ! Very proud of him !
You should
Wow! This takes much dedication.
God bless your son!
Your son is very talented!
Your son is amazing.
The recording and sound quality is amazing considering this was recorded in the 8th century BCE
Lol
😅
man they're reading it again
they where using the Shure Beta 58A Dynamic Microstone back in the day and it still sounds good
Yeah I know it’s weird
Man, when is Homer coming out with his next Album?
@Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan what???
@Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan who is Peterson
@@balbaspusa Joe mama
@Samvel Hasan-Jalalyan
Lol! Just now saw this. You're a Peterson fan too?
Homer is my eldest and favourite grandson.
Mario is straight up reciting the iliad in ancient Greek
@Challenge man Loquat from ifunny
rusty stealberg so weird seeing others from iFunny outside the app
Ahhh, more ifunny people lmao
I finally found this after seeing the Mario version on i funny. I'm so glad, this is amazing.
@cremekinkz no
Love him or hate him, he be spitting straight facts
Why would you hate him?
Linus french tips 😎
@@aezyadkine158??
He is saying a poem.. not a question you un-cultured swine
@@samtas7220 nice grammar suomi
Friendly reminder that someone had to sing this for 37 minutes straight.
Reminder that someone played a variation on the same melody on a prepared piano for thirty minutes.
Reminder that back in the day people would sing the entire book
@@elumayo4090 They did take a break after every 8 books though, if I remember correctly.
@CapitalTeeth friendly reminder Iliad by homer was sung over the course of few nights back in Ancient Greece
Reminder that the Iliad was passed down by centuries of storytellings by elders so someone had to memorize the whole Iliad
This is maybe the most accurate rendition of Homeric Greek pronunciation and Homeric meter I've ever found on TH-cam. A real time travel. Thank you for sharing this performance.
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
@@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.
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.
@@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.
@@sapun_dealer2076 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.
For anyone interested, the exact passage he recites here starts at Book 6, line 237!
this is so cool even following translation you can hear some words here and there
5:35 is straight fire 🔥
Anthony Spezzano He straight up said the n-word.
Anthony Spezzano Ikr
that flow 🔥
Nayaka nigga bimfoulsoa dimnnon
There hector curses paris
When he said "οὐδέ πῃ ἔστι κελαινεφέϊ Κρονίωνι αἵματι καὶ λύθρῳ πεπαλαγμένον εὐχετάασθαι.", I felt that 😔
SAME LOL
Same
I translated your comment when I read it I felt that
Time stamp?
que quiere decir eso??
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.
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.
The internet is quite the place isn't it?
@@shadysam7161 It is, and I love it.
To be more precise, an epic, not a poem
I watch it all the time when i drink loads of caffiene and I always have a good time
Not a waste then, innit?
I'm imagining a skinny old man in a white robe and a mustacheless-beard singing this
Like the goat in your image?
im imagining a young italian man in a red shirt and overalls with a red hat and a mustache rapping this
Sacrificial Lamb I’m imaging an old man with a pencil moustache rapping this
@@ruiyo21 im imagining a middle-aged white man with a funky haircut rapping this in front of a crowd
RemingMcGamer imaging a white guy with baggy jeans and a blue t shirt rapping this to a crowd in 800 BC
*Imagine this recitation in the middle of the day on a market with a crowd hearing it at ancient Greece.*
Better: in a theater or facing a king
More probably a stoa beside the market at an afternoon, with long shadows of Ionian columns, smelly shellfish mixed with fragrant olives.
Let’s appreciate the author of the video he travelled to Ancient Greece to record Homer singing just for us
Jajaja xd
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.
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!
@@fairsaa7975 Yup exactly, its amazing.
i cant believe the audio quality is this good considering it was recorded over 2500 years ago
Bruh are you serious
😂
I don't understand a word, and yet I return here again and again.
I'm only just starting to explore Homer and don't even understand the language but this gives me the absolute CHILLS. Thank you!
Where are you from? Your blood?
We Greeks learn this shit at school. Not my fav....
U must be mentally ill if this crap is giving u chills or u like this🤣🤣🤣🤣
@Kappazoid lmao dude!!!!!!!! im being sarcastic oh my gosh!!!!lmao nothing can outshine the mighty iliad
@@boobie34 fck off
Hats off to the man who recorded this thousands of years ago....
Gilgamesh has been real quiet since this dropped…
Gilgamesh was dead when this dropped, obviously he'd be quiet 🤣
@@loop4569 BUt he dropped a second time dead when hearing this banger 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This man spits fire 🔥🔥🔥
Greek Fire.
Imagine if this was the last thing the Italians in Greece heard during Ww2
@@swamppigeons6101 🔥🔥🔥
he doesnt spit fire, he spits φωτιά 🔥🔥🔥
@@vas2448 More likely he spits ΠΥΡ
Can you imagine sitting at a feast in Ancient Greece and listening as the bard sheds light on such epic adventures? Incredible
Had I heard it back in my university years, I would've studied Homer with much more enthusiasm. This is amazing, thank you.
This hit so hard the classical period had to keep up 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is the very tune used in some ancient Indian songs, this just shows how connected the old world was! Mind blown.
@@lovrohrkac1437 that might be the case. The tune is perfect for an epic.
Alexander famously got as far as India and there are stories of cultural remnants as a result.
@@jwadaow Yes, that could be the reason too...
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.
@@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.
Absolute fire.
Kanye could rap on this
the gods summoned us
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...
When he said Ἕκτωρ δ᾽ ὡς Σκαιάς τε πύλας καὶ φηγὸν ἵκανεν, ἀμφ᾽ ἄρα μιν Τρώων ἄλοχοι θέον ἠδὲ θύγατρες · , I felt that 😊
i love how it's gibberish
Can you imagine listening to this being recited for 4 hours?
Maybe if I knew ancient Greek
I like it honestly even if I don't know a single word.
Iliad, Book VI, line 237 onward.
Up
ευχαριστώ !
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
Love him or hate him. He's spitting some straight facts
Homer doesnt even need autotune 🔥🔥
Fire. Homer was ahead of his time. Instrumental goes hard as fuck and Homers flow is sublime💯💯
I'm mesmerized by this recitation! I'm learning Ancient Greek, and things like this make me to study harder, great job bro!
Me too lol, O can go nearly 60 lines now
Perfect. The aspirated and non aspirated consonants! That's how it might have sounded in the bard's time.
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!
He was my tutor once upon a time. The best. Thank you Silvio.
Hypnotic - even trippy !! I am waiting for the day when the whole of Iliad and Odyssey will be available.
eminem: yoooo this is fire imma sampel thisss
We need a complete recitation of Homer by this man ! This is absolutely incredible.
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.
*"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.
Ancient Greek rapping
Rapsoding
Exactly
True
Diss track on the trojans
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!
rhapsodos
when homer droppin again 🔥🔥
Sadly he died about 3000 years ago 🙏🙏😢
Well done. Your reading brings out the rhythm of the hexameters so well. Would love to hear more Homer and more Ancient Greek. Thanks.
most fire EP of the 7th century.
Just want to say, mate, this is impressive. The length of this, the pronunciation, the musical accompaniment, all of it is delightful. I'd love to hear a full version of the entire Iliad and maybe even the Odyssey in ancient Greek or even English. Homer wrote those to be sung, not read. To experience them as intended is a dream of mine
Jesus this sounds amazing! Makes me want to learn Ancient Greek just so I can experience this fully!
Xezlec dude this isn’t Ancient Greek. This either old thracian or latin Greece didn’t exist back than
@@sapun_dealer2076 no it is Greek, ancient Greek, also called Homeric greek
Isaac Samuel dude Dude i read a article that ancient greek sounds more like modern Albanian. There is proof of this. Modern day greeks are descendants of phonecians and carthagenians as there language has more in comon than ancient greek my friend.
@@sapun_dealer2076 hmm... Ur statement sounds interesting, my friend... Well, it seems that I just have to do my homework on this, I guess... Thanks for commenting
besi behrami believe me I studied Greek for almost 5 years at school and this is Greek...i even translated this part from Greek to Italian...
As @eugeniakatsafadou331 already noted, this is Book 6 line 237 through Book 7 line 7. If you want to know what he's saying, Peter Green (2015) and Richmond Lattimore (1951) are good line-by-line translations. Hector returns to Troy from the battlefield, encounters his mother and tells her to lead the women of the city in prayers to Athena for deliverance from the Greeks (which Athena refuses). Hector then encounters his brother Paris; Helen who left her Greek husband to return with Paris to Troy, causing the war; his son and wife (his wife begs him to stay in the city, in vain), and then Paris again, as they return to the battle.
The best reading of the Homeric hexameters I have heard by far.
homer was spitting back then💥💯🗣
Exactly!
Homer doesent need autotune 🔥
Bro just dropped the hardest beat in the VIII century bc
bro homer is/are the autor(s)
@@mo0n.childd ik
Fantastic, I’ve listened to this many, many times over the last few months. Would pay good money for the other books if they were available
Same
Listened to this entire thing while relaxing in the sun. Everyone who sees this should do the same
My boy homer hasn’t came out with a new album yet in 2024🔥🔥🔥
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.
thx
My mother always disapproved of his music, I wish I listened to it growing up 😔✊
She was a leftist who hated western civilization?
That was fantastic! I want the whole thing and the 'Odyssey' 😂 I was listening to that while reading the 'Iliad' in English translation. Much love!
Im a big fan of HOMER! CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR HIS NEWEST MUSIC!
When is Homer going to visit Brazil?
You meant to say when is he going to visit Hades?
@@alternateperson6600 what's the difference
Also what's with all these Homer and Brazil memes? Can y'all link me to some gold?
Word is he is coming for the next rock in rio.
How Homer must be at the peak of his career
Nobody
Me at 3AM when everybody is sleeping :
I listen to this on a regular basis. It’s mesmerizing. Thank you for a lovely recitation of this part of the poem.
First listen of 2024! Thank you again!
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 .:)
Andromache Pleads with Hector:
Andromache, weeping, addressed her husband: "Dearest husband, your courage will bring you death. You have no pity for your infant son nor for me, your wife, who will soon be a widow. The Greeks will kill you, and I shall be left without hope, to face a bitter fate. It would be better for me to die if I lose you, for there will be nothing left, no comfort, only grief. I have no father, no mother-Achilles killed them both. And now, you are my everything: my father, my mother, my brother, my husband. Have pity on us and stay here in the city, by the tower, to protect our people. Do not leave us to face this cruel war."
Hector’s Response:
Hector, moved but resolute, replied: "Dear wife, I too have thought of all this. But I would feel such shame before the Trojans if I stayed here, like a coward, and avoided battle. My heart cannot bear it-I have learned to fight bravely, always, at the front lines, winning glory for my father and myself. I know well, in my heart, that Troy will fall, that Priam and all our people will perish. But the thought that weighs on me most is your fate, Andromache, when I am gone. You will be led away in tears, a slave to some Greek lord, far from home. Still, I must go. I cannot escape my fate. No man can send me to my death before my time, nor can he evade it when the gods decree it."
What an amazingly beautiful performance. I must learn Greek…
Add ancient Greek as well to that
It also helps me understand why a poem of such great length held itself to hexameter. The flow makes it memorable and performable.
Jokes about rap aside, it really is similar in the way it uses rhythm to tell story. Homer really is "riding a beat". That gives insight to the poem itself, but also opens up new depths and possibility about the cultural origins and aesthetic range of Hip-Hop. It may be argued that it's an ancient art form.
Many thanks for this performance! More please...such a joy to experience this excerpt of the Iliad as would have been experienced aurally in recitation in antiquity, brought to life today by your scholarship and talent!
OMG do more please!
the first verses of the Iliad would be greatly appreciated.
Don't break 2 Commandment.
@@AnonikAnonikos Sorry, but I am an european, not a jew. So I am free to love Homer and the gods.
@@AnonikAnonikos ?
homer spitting straight bars
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
You can probably ignore most of the comments, the only important thing is: PLEASE give us the book 1 in exactly that form or another good form, focused on clear language, with some simple background music!
Μεγάλη θλίψη έχει πιάσει την Αχαϊκή γη. Σίγουρα ο Πρίαμος με τους γιους του θα χαιρόταν, και οι Τρώες θα χαίρονταν κατά βάθος αν άκουγαν αυτή τη διαμάχη ανάμεσα σε εσάς τους δύο, που είστε τόσο άριστοι στη μάχη και τις συμβουλές. Είμαι μεγαλύτερος από κανέναν από εσάς. άρα καθοδηγηθείτε από εμένα. Επιπλέον, υπήρξα ο οικείος φίλος ανθρώπων ακόμα μεγαλύτερων από εσάς, και δεν αγνόησαν τις συμβουλές μου. Ποτέ ξανά δεν μπορώ να δω άντρες όπως ο Πειρίθος και ο Δρυάς ποιμένας του λαού του, ή ο Καινέας, ο Εξάδιος, θεόμορφος Πολύφημος και ο Θησέας, ο γιος του Αιγέα, συνομήλικος των αθανάτων. Αυτοί ήταν οι ισχυρότεροι άνθρωποι που γεννήθηκαν ποτέ σε αυτή τη γη: οι ισχυρότεροι ήταν αυτοί και όταν πολέμησαν τις πιο σκληρές φυλές των αγρίων του βουνού τους ανέτρεψαν τελείως. Ήρθα από τη μακρινή Πύλο, και τριγυρνούσα ανάμεσά τους, γιατί θα ήθελαν να έρθω, και αγωνίστηκα όπως έπρεπε να κάνω. Κανένας άνθρωπος που ζει τώρα δεν μπορούσε να τους αντέξει, αλλά άκουσαν τα λόγια μου και πείστηκαν από αυτά. Έτσι να είναι και με τον εαυτό σας, γιατί αυτός είναι ο καλύτερος τρόπος. Γι' αυτό, Αγαμέμνονα, αν και είσαι δυνατός, μην πάρεις αυτή την κοπέλα, γιατί οι γιοι των Αχαιών την έχουν ήδη δώσει στον Αχιλλέα. Και εσύ, Αχιλλέα, μην αγωνίζεσαι περαιτέρω με τον βασιλιά, γιατί κανένας που με τη χάρη του Ιωβέ κρατά σκήπτρο δεν έχει όμοια τιμή με τον Αγαμέμνονα. Είσαι δυνατή και έχεις μια θεά για τη μητέρα σου. αλλά ο Αγαμέμνονας είναι πιο δυνατός από σένα, γιατί έχει περισσότερους ανθρώπους από κάτω του. Γιε του Ατρέα, έλεγξε το θυμό σου, σε ικετεύω. τερματίστε αυτή τη διαμάχη με τον Αχιλλέα, που την ημέρα της μάχης είναι πύργος δύναμης για τους Αχαιούς».
(book 1)
I’ve listened to this so many times since 2019 such nostalgia it’s 2022 now wow time flew !
2019 BCE?
This is great! I think the reciter has nailed the pronunciation, and the accompaniment seems quite appropriate. Excellent!
this is a certified hood classic 🔥🔥🔥🔥
The AE pronunciation for H is interesting and quite probable which would explain variations between A and E shounds in Greek dialects..
Good work, although I suspect there was a little tonal variation in the recitation originally.
Thanks and Eucharistoo.
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.
😢
The only reading which respect the ancient metric lines! My compliments really!
amazing work - many thanks for sharing
I have never heard anything like this haunting
Homer dropping some epic bars
Damn, imagine being around in ancient Greece where you would hear this live
It's like Woodstock but more spiritual core
This enhances and gives a new meaning to the indoeuropean concept. Human beings at the best. No wonder we're searching the outer space. More recordings please!!!!!
I don't understand a word but I really like it. Greetings from Ukraine fellow Orthodox brothers
4:56 sounded like "ah, stupid guy, go on".
Only the ancient Greeks knew the hype for this drop
When the DNA test says you're 0.1% greek
You won 🏅
For sure, wee all comes from then
No I am actually 3 percent greek/albanian. You are waaaay off if you're talking about me lol
@@matthewjeffersonportorange7885 Who said he was talking about you?
@@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
Beautiful and therapeutic, can’t believe some people are making light of your hard work! Keep doing what you love.
Thank you I worked out to this entire song
It's a pity that it is already 7 years and the author didn't come back.
this actually unironically goes hard.
why did i spend 30 minutes listening to the 800 bc banger lol
I was listening it for 2 hours in loop
it was said that the performers of iliad during wartimes used staff to recreate the tune to the poem, and they would have multi day performances of the entire poem.
It's awesome to hear what it may have sounded like. Thanks for this.
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
homer isn't the one singing,homer lived 800 BCE (800 years before jesus was born)
@@imlostatseadontbotherme2060idk man I'm not sure
El que está cantando es Silvio ziingtag ( no se cómo se escribe) Homero murió hace millones de años
@@imlostatseadontbotherme2060 i hope you're being sarcastic
@@zxlrxv2301No, Homer is still alive. People had longer lifespans back then, due to their healthy medeterrainean diet.
nobody spits fire like this anymore
Φοβερός! Χαιρετισμούς από Αθήνα!
I wish I could listen to the whole book like this.
unironically a good song