Homeric Stitchings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Homeric Stitchings write by Mark David Usher. This book was released on 1998. Homeric Stitchings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil'
The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' write by Karl Olav Sandnes. This book was released on 2011-02-14. The Gospel 'According to Homer and Virgil' available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study investigates the phenomenon of Christian centos, i.e. attempts at rewriting the Gospel stories in both the style and vocabulary of either Homer (Greek) or Virgil (Latin). Out of the classical epics an entirely new text emerged.
The Lucretian Renaissance
The Lucretian Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lucretian Renaissance write by Gerard Passannante. This book was released on 2011-11-25. The Lucretian Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this strain of ancient Greek philosophy survived and was transmitted to the Renaissance primarily by means of a poem that had seemingly been lost—a poem insisting that the letters of the alphabet are like the atoms that make up the universe. By tracing this elemental analogy through the fortunes of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things, Passannante argues that, long before it took on its familiar shape during the Scientific Revolution, the philosophy of atoms and the void reemerged in the Renaissance as a story about reading and letters—a story that materialized in texts, in their physical recomposition, and in their scattering. From the works of Virgil and Macrobius to those of Petrarch, Poliziano, Lambin, Montaigne, Bacon, Spenser, Gassendi, Henry More, and Newton, The Lucretian Renaissance recovers a forgotten history of materialism in humanist thought and scholarly practice and asks us to reconsider one of the most enduring questions of the period: what does it mean for a text, a poem, and philosophy to be “reborn”?
Virgil Recomposed
Virgil Recomposed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Virgil Recomposed write by Scott McGill. This book was released on 2005-07-28. Virgil Recomposed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first book to present a comprehensive study of the mythological and secular Virgilian centos.
Jesus the Epic Hero
Jesus the Epic Hero - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jesus the Epic Hero write by Karl Olav Sandnes. This book was released on 2022-08-29. Jesus the Epic Hero available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ancient cento-genre was prone to be used on all kinds of subjects. New texts were created out of the classical epics. Empress Eudocia followed this practice and composed the story of Jesus in lines lifted almost verbatim from Homer’s epics. Jesus and his relevance to her audience is thus presented within the confines of style and vocabulary offered by the Iliad and Odyssey. The lines picked to convey her theology are often clustered around key Homeric motifs or type scenes, such as warfare, homecoming, feast, reconciliation, hospitality. Jesus waging war against all evil and Hades in particular runs throughout this Homeric and simultaneously biblical epic. The story starts in the Old Testament which is conceived as a divine counsel on Mt. Olympus where a plan to save sinful humanity is presented. The narrative then follows the biographic lines of the canonical gospels, with John’s Gospel holding pride of place in the way she renders and interprets the Jesus-story. The story told suspends both the geography and time of Jesus. Eudocia preaches the story she tells. She emerges in this poem as one of the most, if not the most prolific female theologian and preacher in the first Christian centuries.
