The Homeric Centos

Homer and the Bible Interwoven

Anna Lefteratou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

328 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-766655-5 (ISBN)

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The Homeric Centos, a poem that is Homeric in style and biblical in theme, is a dramatic illustration of the creative cultural and religious dialogue between Classical Antiquity and Christianity taking place in the Roman Empire during the fifth century CE. The text is attributed to Eudocia, empress and poet, who died in exile in the Holy Land ca. 460. With lines drawn verbatim from Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, the poem begins with the Creation and Fall and ends with Jesus' Resurrection and Ascension. In this blend of Homeric style and Christian themes, there are also echoes of Classical and classicising literature, stretching from Homer and drama to imperial literature. Equally prominent are echoes of earlier Christian canonical and apocryphal works, verse models, and theological works.

In The Homeric Centos: Homer and the Bible Interwoven, Anna Lefteratou analyzes the double inspiration of the poem by both classical and Christian traditions. This book explores the works relationship with the cultural milieu of the fifth century CE and offers in-depth analysis of the scenes of Creation and Fall, and Jesus' Passion, Resurrection, and Ascension. This book exposes the work's debt to centuries of Homeric reception and interpretation as well as Christian literature and exegesis, and places it at the crossroads of Christian and pagan literary traditions.

Anna Lefteratou is University Lecturer in Patristics at the University of Cambridge and the author of Mythological Narratives: The Bold and Faithful Heroines of the Greek Novels.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Unweaving crossweave poems
1. Homerocentones biblici
2. Mulierum virtutes
3. De fructu lignorum
4. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis
Reweaving Eudocia's web

Erscheinungsdatum	05.08.2023
Reihe/Serie	OXFORD STUDIES IN LATE ANTIQUITY SERIES
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	244 x 162 mm
Gewicht	612 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-766655-8 / 0197666558
ISBN-13	978-0-19-766655-5 / 9780197666555
Zustand	Neuware