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.
| Foreword |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Note on Citation Style |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (8) |
| Part One: Cento Contexts |
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Understanding the Homeric Centos |
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9 | (10) |
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Eudocia Augusta: Reader-Rhapsode |
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19 | (16) |
| Part Two: Cento Poetics |
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35 | (22) |
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57 | (24) |
| Part Three: Cento Semiotics and Aesthetics |
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Themes and Intertextuality |
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81 | (20) |
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101 | (12) |
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113 | (18) |
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131 | (16) |
| References |
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147 | (22) |
| Index |
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169 | (6) |
| About the Author |
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