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Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia
Author(s): M. D. Usher (Author)
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication Date: 1 Jun. 1998
- Language: English
- Print length: 192 pages
- ISBN-10: 0847689999
- ISBN-13: 9780847689996
Book 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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Usher argued his case well and enthusiastically, and in making Eudocia’s work readily available and known , he has laid the foundation for its interpretation. ― Phoenix
U.’s book sets Eudocia in an entirely fresh light, as direct descendant of the Homeric rhapsodes. ―
The Classical ReviewAbout the Author
M. D. Usher is assistant professor of classics at University of Vermont, and the editor of Homerocentones Eudociae Augustae (Teubner).
