{"id":42180,"date":"2020-10-09T09:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=42180"},"modified":"2020-10-09T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T13:34:43","slug":"homers-odyssey-comes-alive-in-london-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/10\/homers-odyssey-comes-alive-in-london-reading.html","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Homer&#8217;s &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; Comes Alive in London Reading<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Jermyn Street Theatre, together with London Review Bookshop and WW Norton, present a continuous performance of all 24 books of Emily Wilson\u2019s translation.<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42198\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/the-odyssey-image-from-lrb-copy\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/The-Odyssey-image-from-LRB-copy.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"560,409\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"&amp;#8216;The Odyssey&amp;#8217; 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autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Books 1- 4: The reading starts at 31:13 on the track counter.  <\/strong><br>The actors reading are: Janet Suzman, Emma Fielding, Jim Findley, Aaron-Louis Cadogan, Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Theo Ancient, Daphne Alexander, Richard Keightley, Sally Cheng, Naomi Frederick, Burt Caesar, Richard Keightley.. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0jXjq2in8PI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption><strong>Books 5 &#8211; 24: The reading continues, beginning  at  -1:16:07 on the track counter.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The poem tells of the adventures of Odysseus as he tries to get home after the Trojan War, and of his wife Penelope\u2019s struggles to keep their island kingdom from civil war, along with his son Telemachus\u2019 search to find his lost father. This reading brings 72 actors together to perform Homer\u2019s epic poem in sequence. &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; was first performed by bards across the Mediterranean in the eighth century BCE.  The entire reading will remain on YouTube for a week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; tells of the adventures of Odysseus as he tries to get home after the Trojan War, and of his wife Penelope\u2019s struggles to keep their island kingdom from civil war, along with his son Telemachus\u2019 search to find his lost father. This reading brings 72 actors together to perform the epic poem in sequence. &#8216;The Odyssey&#8217; was first performed by bards across the Mediterranean in the eighth century BCE.  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