What does Homer have to do with John of Damascus?
While generally underappreciated, the repository of Byzantine hymnography—a living liturgical tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church—betrays echoes, not only of the Iliad and Odyssey, but of Euripides, Pindar, and Sophocles. Between the Fifth and Ninth Centuries, Byzantine hymnographers, steeped in the Hellenic patrimony, crafted erudite and masterful syntheses of the literature, science, and art of ancient Hellas.
Join the Pittsburgh Byzantine Choir, under the direction of Dr. Nick Giannoukakis, internationally renowned head chanter of the Metropolis of Pittsburgh and Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, in an evening of Byzantine Chant, and a guided tour through its Homeric reverberations.