The Odyssey, complete, in Ancient Greek, to listen to.
1732 Studios publishes the whole poem as an audiobook: all twenty-four books, more than eighteen hours, in reconstructed Homeric pronunciation.
The Odyssey was made to be heard. It was sung before it was written down, and since then most readers have met it in silence, in translation. The Odyssey in Ancient Greek gives the poem back its sound: 12,107 lines, eighteen hours and twenty-one minutes, with the pitch accent restored and every verse shaped to its hexameter.
To our knowledge it is the first complete audiobook of the Odyssey in Ancient Greek. It is for the student who wants the meter in the ear, and for the reader who knows the story and wants to hear what Homer’s audience heard.
A digital voice reads the poem. The studio directed it line by line, and says so wherever the audiobook is sold. The pronunciation follows the scholarly reconstruction of Homeric Greek. The same voice reads every line aloud in the studio’s guided edition of the poem.
The particulars
- All twenty-four books, unabridged: 18 hours 21 minutes
- Reconstructed Homeric pronunciation, with the pitch accent restored
- On Apple Books, $14.99
- On Audiobooks.com, $19.99
1732 Studios publishes the great books: guided editions that teach a language through the book itself, audiobooks, and its own English translations. Everything the studio makes is on the shelf at 1732studios.com.