SORTES HOMERICAE️

Two Greek heroes playing at dice on the plains of Troy

WHAT ARE SORTES

An ancient word for fate and fortune

In the age of heroes the warriors drew lots (κλῆροι) from brazen helms to reveal who the gods had determined to glory

In our general weakness and lacking an arena (ἀγών) in which to display our virtue we resort to this prophecy by means of books (βιβλιομαντεία)

Cast lots and show Homer an oracle true!

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A NOTE ON THE SOUNDS

The speech recordings were synthesized using the software application MBROLA. The software is packaged with voice databases which are free to use for non-commercial and educational purposes. For more details see the voice database license on github.

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