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Homeric stitchings : the Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia / M.D. Usher.
Van Pelt Library PA3972.E86 Z88 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Usher, M. D. (Mark David), 1966-
- Series:
- Greek studies
- Greek studies : interdisciplinary approaches
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eudocia, Empress, consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East, -460--Criticism and interpretation.
- Eudocia.
- Eudocia, Empress, consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East, -460.
- Homer.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Christian poetry, Greek--History and criticism.
- Christian poetry, Greek.
- Homer--Appreciation--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Centos.
- Oral tradition.
- Intellectual life.
- Byzantine Empire--Intellectual life.
- Byzantine Empire.
- Oral tradition--Turkey--Istanbul.
- Centos--History and criticism.
- Oral-formulaic analysis.
- Transmission of texts.
- Literary form.
- Turkey--Istanbul.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- x, 173 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [1998]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Cento Contexts
- 1 Understanding the Homeric Centos 9
- 2 Eudocia Augusta: Reader-Rhapsode 19
- Part 2 Cento Poetics
- 3 Accommodations 35
- 4 Enjambement 57
- Part 3 Cento Semiotics and Aesthetics
- 5 Themes and Intertextuality 81
- 6 Composition by Theme 101
- 7 Themes from the Odyssey 113
- 8 Themes from the Iliad 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-168) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0847689999
- 0847690504
- OCLC:
- 38580119
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