Hear what the Odyssey may have sounded like as a song

Two scholars reconstructed singing the Homeric epics, recording 100 lines of Odyssey book 8.

singing the Homeric epics — Attic white-ground lekythos by the Achilles Painter, woman with a phorminx, Ashmolean Museum / photo ArchaiOptix, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

Georg Danek and Stefan Hagel have worked out a way to sing Homer, and Open Culture has their recording. Danek teaches at the University of Vienna and Hagel is at the Austrian Academ…