As an ancient language nerd, that would go so hard. However, having experts coaching every actor to get the phonology, and especially the pitch accent right, could potentially be a nightmare.
It's because it was already anachronistic by the time it was written down. Homer (if he was even one guy) was writing the story some 600 years after the story is set. If there was an Odysseus, he would've been speaking a drastically different dialect from Homer. For reference, that's about equivalent to modern English vs. The Canterbury Tales.
Did Greek dialects change that much? Really truly not my area of knowledge, but I recall hearing about how English changed very much, and other languages including Greek changed comparitively little. So that modern Greeks can understand Ancient Greek, whereas Chaucer is a struggle for modern Brits.
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u/Ancient_Presence 4h ago
As an ancient language nerd, that would go so hard. However, having experts coaching every actor to get the phonology, and especially the pitch accent right, could potentially be a nightmare.