Homeric Stitchings: The Homeric Centos of the Empress Eudocia

by M.D. Usher

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847690504
• ISBN13: 9780847690503
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 9.1"