Title: Homeric stitchings
First published: 1998
Description: 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 to cultural historians.
Subjects: Appreciation, Centos, Christian poetry, Greek, Criticism and interpretation, Greek Christian poetry, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Literary form, Mythology, Greek, in literature, Oral tradition, Oral-formulaic analysis, Transmission of texts, Homer, Christian poetry, history and criticism, Byzantine empire
Places: Byzantine Empire, Istanbul, Turkey
People: Eudocia consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East (d. 460), Homer
Time periods: To 1500
LC classification: PA3972.E86 Z88 1998