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Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia

By M. D. Usher

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
1998
ISBN
0847689999, 9780847689996, 0847690504
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20554177 bytes)
Series
Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Edition
1
Pages
192\189
Time added
2022-12-08 07:17:10

Description

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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