The Iliad Book 1 Lines 1-21 sung | Reconstructed Archaic Greek | Artistic Adaptation by Perkʷunós

The Iliad from the Homeric oral tradition was composed in the early Iron Age, and was orally transmitted down to generations of rhapsodes before being first rendered in the contemporaneously developing Greek alphabet. The Iliad is the oldest poetic and liturgical tradition of Europe that has been significant to Indo-European comparative linguistics. This recitation of the Iliad Book 1:1–21 with pitch accents and dactylic hexameter in Archaic Greek is an original reconstruction of ‪@perquunos‬​ which synthesized comparative and diachronic analyses of morphophonological developments in attested Ancient Greek dialects and reconstructable Proto-Hellenic and Proto-Indo-European stages of the language. The musical and performance aspects of the original Iliad recitation are mostly lost to history, and this video only attempts to recreate a modern rendition thereof based on the surviving musical documentation of Ancient Greek pitch accentuation and the poetic dactylic hexameter mapped onto a 4/4 tresillo rhythm. English Translation is from Anthony S. Kline, William Cowper, Robert Fagles and Augustus T. Murray.