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One of the other trivia teams last night named themselves after this clip (“Emily Watson’s Interpretation of Homer’s The Odorkssey “) and I congratulated them on their culture and almost felt bad that my team still won

Posting that clip as a req to /r/supersaiyangifs

It's the dactylic hexameter. It's like a drumbeat that ebbs and flows like the Aegean. And when someone as skilled as Wilson recites it, you can feel why those stories survived 2700 years.

from a layperson's perspective this sounds so much like tolkein's elvish

She’s on here u know 👀👀👀

I think she had a Twitter thread in 2020 about how she got addicted to tattoos while doing the translation

This is cool as hell

Lovely. I got the same buzz when I heard Seamus Heaney reading 'Beowulf: A New Verse Translation', for the first time. ❤️

The Jesuit who taught my Ancient Greek class had one speaking voice in English, and a completely other, more musical one when speaking in dactylic hexameter. He also really loved teaching DUNE, which I feel is related.

i wasn't going to say it. but

This is making me mad I never got to see Dead Can Dance in concert since I imagine Lisa Gerrard had similar vibes

do I need to even see the movie after this??? nah, I think I'm good

Okay.... Okay, but why is that hot?! I understood nothing but now im flustered!

It’s already unfair that Greek myth is so goated, they also have chanting that’s cooler than leyning ??

waow

she had me at her thread about Nolan and LA and I haven’t seen the film

This is the ideal Homeric body. You may not like it, but this is what epic poetry looks like

Josie I can find you so many drunk Glaswegian lassies that sounds exactly like this

My favorite part was she stood up to do it. She knew the assignment. The magnetic energy one exudes

@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social :)