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15881532 No.15881532 [Reply] [Original]

I am not even against it, but I love the fact that it happened 35 years before the prediction:

https://news.usc.edu/161423/brandon-bourgeois-classics-the-iliad-rap/

>A room of classics students is about to get a lesson in ancient literature via a very unexpected method: Instructor Brandon Bourgeois — clad in black, a gold medallion depicting the face of Medusa slung around his neck — is ready to rap.

>3,000 years ago, a Greek poet whose name was Homer composed a flow for his feta, he was a real rov-uh.
>He spun and spread a tale of lust, war, rage and revenge.
>A tapestry, a masterpiece, words stitched together without a pen.
>A story — rather gory in detail:
>10 years of bloody battle waged by Greeks over a female — hell, you heard-uh Helen.
>She sailed to Asia with a prince named Paris already married to a Spartan king named Menelaus.
>Ran to his brother — the great king Agamemnon: “What happened to my queen?!” The brotha told him to stay strong: “We out for blood!
>“Grab your weapons, spread the message to all the kings in Greece. We’ll have your Helen home in no time, a matter of weeks.”

>The lyrics are his hip-hop adaptation of the prologue to The Iliad, delivered as a rap lecture in staccato bursts to music Bourgeois composed using Apple’s GarageBand app. It’s his way of making the classic poem — one of the foundational texts of Western civilization — relevant to a modern audience. But it’s also more than that.

>> No.15881553
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15881553

>>15881532
Very interesting parallels with Homer!

>> No.15881594

>>15881553
Emily thirsty for that BBC

>> No.15881614

>>15881553
lol what a dumb bitch

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15881746

>>15881532
>The lyrics are his hip-hop adaptation of the prologue to The Iliad, delivered as a rap lecture in staccato bursts to music Bourgeois composed using Apple’s GarageBand app.

>> No.15881765

>>15881746
Didn't know there was a photo of me making the rounds

>> No.15881894

>>15881532
>Brandon Bourgeois
Fitting name

>> No.15881933

>>15881553
>>15881553
what is this whiteness problem classicism has?

>> No.15882375

>>15881553
There are interesting parallels between the rich poetic traditions of crap, and Homer; both use sounds and both are concerned with release, tension, danger, and fructification. I'm really looking forward to more of the Trilliad, for all this.

Shit aside, exclusivity, classism, and whiteness is the root of the Iliad. She can blow it out her ass. Not everyone will be able to read or fully understand the Iliad, and them being undereducated, non-white, or poor might have something to do with it. Sometimes the aforementioned intersect. They can make an Iliad that's on these people's terms, but they shouldn't expect the ones who read the real thing to treat this poetic mongrel as great.

>> No.15882504

>>15881532
>pic
They're already substantially reimaginings just by virtue of going from ancient Greek in dactylic hexameter to a meter that doesn't sound awful in English, so as a layman I don't see how either style is supposed to be blatantly superior to the other

>> No.15882570

>>15882504
Shh, anon, this is the /pol/ thread. Nobody here has actually bothered to read Homer.

>> No.15882666

>>15882504
Wilson's one sounds more like those "Bible Stories for Children" books than something anyone who actually cares to read the Iliad and the Odyssey would want to read. I know that this board has a hate boner for translating shit in general but even if you consider all translations bad you should be able to tell the difference in quality between separate translations themselves, even if just by the way they're presented in English.

>> No.15882690

>>15881532
This isn't even rap, it doesn't rhyme. What is he doing?

>> No.15882711

>>15881532
This is actually cool

>> No.15883032

>>15882375
Shut the fuck up Horia.

>> No.15883329

>>15881532
Why did he have to make it rhyme?
>>15881553
whiteness and racism are smokescreens to prevent class consciousness. The difference between my wage and the average black man's may seem big, but then you realise that our wages look near identical when compared to people on 6+ digit salaries.