reece: 4. Ithaca
Texts read & music played:
- Homer: The Odyssey (Book 13, extract)
- Carl Nielsen: Helios Overture, op.17
- George Seferis: It’s an old Harbour…
- Lawrence Durrell: The Greek Islands (Ithaca)
- Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (extract)
- Lord Byron: a letter, Oct 4, 1810
- Mikis Theodorakis: Varka Sto Gialo (Rowing Boat by the Shore)
- Trelawny: Our Visit to Ithaca
- Musique de la Grece Antique (excerpt)
- Homer: The Odyssey (Book 14, extract), translation by William Cowper
- Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (end of Act 1)
- Luigi Dallapiccola: Ulisse (start of Act 2)
- Homer: The Odyssey (Book 1, start), translation by Emily Watson
- Ancient Greek Music re-created (from The Early Music Show, BBC Radio 3, April 2019)
- Homer: The Odyssey (Book 17, extract), translations by E.V. Rieu and William Cowper compared
- Donald MacPherson: A View from Mount Neritos, in the Island of Ithaca (1824)
- Oscar Wilde: Impression du Voyage (1877)
- Alfred Lord Tennyson: Ulysses (1842)
- Constantine Cavafy: Ithaca
- Joachim Du Bellay: Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage… (Les Regrets, 1588, Sonnet 31)
- George Seferis: Reflections on a foreign line of verse…
- A.E. Stallings: Penelope III
- A.E. Stallings: The Wife of the Man of Many Wiles
- Claudio Monteverdi: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria – Sospirato mio sole….Si, vita! So, core!
- James Joyce: Ulysses (1922) – Penelope (last page)
- Mikis Thgeodorakis: Sto Perigiali to Krifo (Secret Shore)
- George Dalaras: Odysseus
- George Dalaras: Things Will Change
