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Originally Posted by HarryT
I'd love to have a properly read audio version of it, but I've not come across one. I'm hopeless at reading Greek poetry aloud - it's a skill all of its own. In order to be able to read it aloud, you need to be able to "scan" the hexameter verse and work out where the long and short syllables lie. I can scan Greek poetry on paper, but it takes me 5 minutes to do each line. My Greek isn't even close to good enough to be able to do it in "real time", which is what you need to be able to do to read it aloud.
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When I was taught how to scan hexameter (well, to scan in general), I was made to learn portions of text off by heart. It really helps in learning how to get the rhythm of the text. Classical metrics really is a skill of its own. I had to take a course in classical metrics during my undergraduate studies, but it is my understanding that such courses are not very common in universities, which is a shame, I think.