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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purely through these oral recitations.
There are many different layers of Greek in Homeric Greek, vocabulary and syntax from different
periods in the evolution of Greek, side by side, there are different dialects, words from different dialects of Greek.
So the whole thing is a concoction
That no one ever spoke.
So, you know, one could argue that if you're
If you're celebrating a translation because it sounds just like everyday English, you could say, Well, th it therefore is nothing like Homer, which never sounded like everyday Greek to anyone, even in Homer's own time.
Right.
It was in poetic language.
I always use the example of it so you mentioned the fact that it's there needs to be a slight elevation, or I don't even think it's about high versus low.
I think just a sense that it's not totally ordinary.
And so I always use the example of phrases from the King James Bible.
feel to a modern day English speaker.
In other words, it's it's strange, right?
You would never talk that way in a ordering of hamburger in a restaurant.
But it's familiar at the same time.
It has great authority.
It's something you're used to.
It's poetic.
But you know it, but you would never speak it.
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