By M. D. Usher
Homeric Stitchings is the 1st prolonged examine of the Homeric Centos, a protracted pastiche poem on a biblical subject composed by way of the Theodosian Empress Eudocia utilizing in simple terms verses from the Iliad and the Odyssey. construction upon contemporary paintings on Homeric poetics, and using linguistic and semiotic equipment of study, this learn introduces readers to the Centos as a cosmopolitan comparative examining of Homer and the Bible, dependent upon intertextual institutions of rules, phrases, and sounds. Homeric Stitchings is a research within the performative elements of historical analyzing, the approaches of human reminiscence, and the reception of Homeric poetry as oral poetry in later antiquity. will probably be of significant curiosity to scholars and students of Homer, the Bible and comparative literature, and cultural historians.
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Such versification, known by the technical designation of cento or “stitching,” has not until now received the attention it deserves. Previous scholarship has tended to underestimate the Homeric Centos and the form of the cento in general. Usher’s book forces a radical reassessment. Concentrating on the historical context of audience reception, Usher demonstrates the artistry and communicative power of the Homeric Centos. This poem, as Usher shows convincingly, was intended for performance before audiences who were intimately familiar with both Homer and the Bible.
25 In surveying the many textile metaphors for poetic composition in classical antiquity (for example, Latin texo, Greek Nagy concludes that in “many and various fabrics of song, each one already made (that is, each one already woven), become remade into a unity, a single new continuous fabric, by being sewn together” (Nagy 1996b:86). This is a fitting description of the centonism of Eudocia, who too took a fabric of song, already made, and remade it into a “single new continuous fabric” by sewing it together.
107), which follows logically from Christ’s statement at 472 (= Od. ” However, some manuscripts of Homer actually read for at Od.