Yesterday we brought you a snippet of the Iliad in the Original Greek. How about The Odyssey in Ian McKellen’s sonorous rendition?
https://youtu.be/lgB9vxYT9kw?list=PLyr11gt6ZVmkPkp3lb4Kocn8vJJy-cICQ
All there on Youtube, all for free. I love the twenty-first century so much.
Come back Monday when The History of Literature takes a look at Homer. In the meantime, you can catch up on Episode 1 – The Epic of Gilgamesh and Episode 2 – The Hebrew Bible.

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