Odyssey δ 4.715-41

Penelope, John Roddam Spencer Stanhope, 1864, via Sotheby’s

David’s Performance text with English translation

Syllables in bold are dynamically prominent according to the new theory of the ancient Greek pitch accent. (The downbeats of the hexameter are underlined in the video below; this helps to see how the tonal prominence at times reinforces and at tim…