This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/greek-literature-by-hjw-tillyard/
Volunteers outside the USA: Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard died in 1968. This person's work may still be protected by copyright in countries where copyright duration is determined by the author's death date. In Europe this is 70 years; in Canada it is 50 years; and in Australia it is 70 years for authors who died after 1955.
Note to Readers: Please omit the bibliographies given at the end of each chapter. Also note that the abbreviation fl. c. is used frequently in this work. It means the approximate time during which an author was active, and should be read as "floruit circa.""The Greeks were the most intellectual people of the old world. … The study of Greek literature is therefore a proper element in a liberal education. The Greek language, naturally flexible and rich in poetical words, becomes in the hands of the great writers a medium of unequalled force, clearness, and adaptability, able to express as well the highest aspirations of the poet as the subtlest shades of philosophical argument or the most abstruse technicalities. The books of Greece have passed the critical selection of the ages, and the student, unencumbered by masses of inferior material, can approach the works of acknowledged masters, the true fountain-head of European culture." (From the Introduction)
If you would like some guidance on how to pronounce the Greek names, you should be able to find recordings of most of them at http://www.howjsay.com/
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/greekliterature00tillrich/
Deadline: Please submit your recording within 2 months of placing your claim. If you cannot complete the recording within this time, please post in the thread to relinquish your claim or to ask the BC for an extension. If your recording is not completed by the deadline, your claim may be reassigned at the BC's discretion.
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Magic Window:
BC Admin
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Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Literary Criticism; *Non-fiction/Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Keywords that describe the book: homer, classics, plato, greece, aristotle, herodotus, thucydides, demosthenes, isocrates
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LibriVox recording settings: mono (1 channel), 44100 Hz sample rate, 128 kbps constant bit rate MP3. See the Tech Specs
Intro to recording:
Leave 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning.
Say:
End of recording:"Chapter # of Greek Literature. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org." [Optional: "Read by your name."] "Greek Literature, by Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard. Section Title."
Say:
If you are recording the final section of the book, add:"End of chapter #." [Optional, and if not stated in the intro: "Read by your name, city, date."]
Leave 5 seconds of silence at the end."End of Greek Literature, by Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard."
Filename: greekliterature_##_tillyard_128kb.mp3 where ## is the section number. (e.g. greekliterature_01_tillyard_128kb.mp3)
Upload to the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
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MC to select: mightyfelix
Copy and paste the file link generated by the uploader into a new post in this thread along with the file duration (mm:ss). Watch this thread for prooflistening notes.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! Just post in this thread.