CAS deans read from The Odyssey for Homerathon 2019
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The CAS deans read from The Odyssey for Homerathon 2019
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- [00:00:05.220]Speak memory, of cunning hero.
- [00:00:07.910]The wanderer, blown off course time and again
- [00:00:10.580]after he plundered Troy's sacred heights.
- [00:00:13.450]Speak of all the cities he saw,
- [00:00:15.730]the minds he grasped,
- [00:00:17.720]the suffering deep in his heart at sea.
- [00:00:20.030]As he struggled to survive and bring his men home.
- [00:00:24.320]But he could not save them, hard as he tried.
- [00:00:27.587]The fools destroyed by their own recklessness
- [00:00:31.760]when they ate the oxen of Hyperion the Sun,
- [00:00:34.650]and that god snuffed out their day of return.
- [00:00:38.626]Of these things speak, Immortal One,
- [00:00:41.440]and tell the tale once more in our time.
- [00:00:45.160]But no man Achilles,
- [00:00:46.570]has ever been as blessed as you,
- [00:00:48.270]or ever will be.
- [00:00:49.680]While you were alive the army honored you like a god,
- [00:00:53.020]and now that you are here you rule the dead with might.
- [00:00:56.410]You should not lament your death at all, Achilles.
- [00:00:59.530]Don't try to sell me on death, Odysseus.
- [00:01:03.448]I'd rather be a hired hand back up on earth,
- [00:01:06.670]slaving away for some poor dirt farmer,
- [00:01:09.900]than lord it over these withered dead.
- [00:01:14.060]The muse moved the bard to sing of heroes.
- [00:01:16.480]The piece that he sang was already famed
- [00:01:18.490]throughout the world.
- [00:01:19.579]The quarrel Odysseus once had with Achilles.
- [00:01:22.740]Going head to head at a feast of the gods.
- [00:01:25.230]With violent words and Agamemnon the warlord,
- [00:01:28.923]rejoiced that these two,
- [00:01:31.280]the best of the Greeks,
- [00:01:32.319]were at each other's throats.
- [00:01:39.600]This was the song the renowned bard sang.
- [00:01:43.880]But Odysseus pulled his great purple cloak over his head
- [00:01:49.160]and hid his handsome face.
- [00:01:52.460]He was ashamed to let the Phaeacians
- [00:01:55.320]see his tears falling down.
- [00:01:58.210]And whenever the singer paused,
- [00:02:01.750]Odysseus would wipe away his tears,
- [00:02:05.850]pick up his great cup and pour libations to the gods.
- [00:02:13.970]And Agamemnon, the warlord rejoiced that these two,
- [00:02:18.640]the best of the Greeks,
- [00:02:19.890]were at each other's throats.
- [00:02:24.510]Okay, we'll have to do that one again.
- [00:02:26.200](all laugh)
- [00:02:27.308]'cause I dropped my cloak?
- [00:02:29.200]Too much action.
- [00:02:30.630]Too much action.
- [00:02:31.463]But you're not even supposed to have a cloak yet,
- [00:02:32.520]I don't think!
- [00:02:33.486][Girl In Pink Shirt] Tuck it in here. Ope, sorry.
- [00:02:36.652]Everyone's at my throat.
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