Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia

M. D. Usher

doi:10.5771/9781461637417

Summary

Homeric Stitchings is the first extended study of the Homeric Centos, a long pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey. Building upon recent work on Homeric poetics, and utilizing linguistic and semiotic methods of analysis, this study introduces readers to the Centos as a sophisticated comparative reading of Homer and the Bible, based upon intertextual associations of ideas, words, and sounds. Homeric Stitchings is a study in the performative aspects of ancient reading, the processes of human memory, and the reception of Homeric poetry as oral poetry in later antiquity. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of Homer, the Bible and comparative literature, and cultural historians.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/1998
Copyright year: 1998
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8476-8999-6
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-3741-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 175
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. Note on Citation Style No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
1. 1: Understanding the Homeric Centos No access
2. 2: Eudocia Augusta: Reader-Rhapsode No access
1. 3: Accommodations No access
2. 4: Enjambement No access
1. 5: Themes and Intertextuality No access
2. 6: Composition by Theme No access
3. 7: Themes from the Odyssey No access
4. 8: Themes from the Iliad No access
References No access Pages 147 - 168
Index No access Pages 169 - 174
About the Author No access Pages 175 - 175