Daniel Mendelsohn
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599 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Daniel Mendelsohn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I think mine is really trying to give you the experience of
what's in the Greek to a certain extent, more so than many other recent
translations which focus on other things and that's perfectly fine, you know.
But I think people like to feel that there's a really insistent rhythm when they're reading a poem.
And I think I give that to them.
Uh so I would say the stylistics of Homer
are uppermost in my mind when I was translating.
Well that's I mean, thank you.
I mean that's wonderful to hear.
You know, two days before publication date.
I'm very happy to hear that uh uh uh somebody thinks it worked.
I will say this, and I'm glad you mentioned it, which is
Diction is very important.
And I think people need to understand because so many recent translations have modernized, you know.
the language, so it just feels like you know, reading the newspaper.
It's just the ordinary everyday language.
It's very important, I think, for people to understand that Homer never
sounded that way to a Greek person.
Homer's language was not it's very important people understand the language, the Greek of the Ili and the Odyssey is a purely artificial literary language that no one ever spoke.
It developed over centuries.
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