Homeric Stitchings - The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia

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.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Foreword Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Note on Citation Style Chapter 4 Introduction Part 5 Part I. Cento Contexts Chapter 6 Understanding the Homeric Centos Chapter 7 Eudocia Augusta: Reader-Rhapsode Part 8 Part II. Cento Poetrics Chapter 9 Accomodations Chapter 10 Enjambement Part 11 Part III. Cento Semiotics and Aesthethics Chapter 12 Themes and Intertextuality Chapter 13 Composition by Theme Chapter 14 Themes from the Odyssey Chapter 15 Themes from the Iliad Chapter 16 References Chapter 17 Index

About the author

By M. D. Usher

Summary

A study of the "Homeric Centos", a pastiche poem on a biblical theme composed by the Theodosian Empress Eudocia using only verses from the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey". This text introduces readers to the poem as a comparative reading of Homer and the bible, based upon inter-textual associations.

Product details

• Authors: M D Usher, M. D. Usher, M.D. Usher, Mark David Usher
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.1998
• EAN: 9780847689996
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8999-6
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 449 g
• Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina; Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches; Greek Studies: Interdisciplina
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Altgriechisch, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form