The Classics department at my university has, every year, a recitation/performance night where people can give recitations in Latin or Greek (or really, any ancient or modern language, as long as it's tangentially Classics-related) and compete for prizes. I've decided to do a reading from Hesiod's Theogony, since the theme for this year are the Muses.
Here's a bit of a preliminary recording I did of the first 21 lines; I would welcome any general feedback. (If my voice seems a bit, well, overdramatic at times, it's because I know I'll need to project to a whole auditorium.) I'm more or less aiming for a restored pronunciation, though stopping short of doing all the consonants in restored pronunciation, because (a) some of them are hard to recognize/distinguish that way (I'm thinking of my audience here) and (b) I'm not used to it.
Also, I know I got a couple breathing marks wrong, so please disregard those.
Text is here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0129
Enjoy! (I hope...)
Here's a bit of a preliminary recording I did of the first 21 lines; I would welcome any general feedback. (If my voice seems a bit, well, overdramatic at times, it's because I know I'll need to project to a whole auditorium.) I'm more or less aiming for a restored pronunciation, though stopping short of doing all the consonants in restored pronunciation, because (a) some of them are hard to recognize/distinguish that way (I'm thinking of my audience here) and (b) I'm not used to it.
Also, I know I got a couple breathing marks wrong, so please disregard those.
Text is here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0129
Enjoy! (I hope...)
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