Wine-Dark Sea (Greek poetry)
Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea presents a sequence of Greek poems in the form of a metaphorical voyage in time from Ithaca (Cavafy’s poem, 1910) back to the Odyssey (c. 700 BC), followed by excerpts from Odysseus’s literal return-voyage to the shore of Ithaca.
Introductory notes
This performance was given informally, without a programme.
Script
- PDF, Word file
- Script with English translations: Word file
- Translation of Aeschylus Agamemnon 650–73: PDF
- Translation of Homer Iliad 19.395–424: PDF
- Translation of Homer Odyssey 13.71–80, 88–92, 183–200: PDF
- Translation of Homer Odyssey 15.101–8, 123–8, 217–21, 289–95, 297–8, 296: PDF
Slides
- PDF, PowerPoint file
- Synchroniser’s text: PDF, Word file