The empress Eudocia and the 1st Homeric Cento redaction (authorship identification)

Tatiana Aleksandrova

doi:10.28995/2686-7249-2016-6-81-100

The empress Eudocia and the 1st Homeric Cento redaction (authorship identification)

Tatiana Aleksandrova

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2016-6-81-100

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Abstract

This paper proposes an identification of the author of the 1^st redaction of the Homeric Cento (1HC). Comparison of 1HC with the verse Foreword of Bishop Patricius permits to conclude that the Patricius version was probably enlarged (the Latin Vergilian cento by Proba beingregarded as an example). On the other hand, comparing 1HC with the verse Foreword by the Empress Eudocia makes it clear that the versionin question includes features noticed by her, i.e. a large amount of “double-quoted” Homeric lines, which give a ‘Homeric flavour’ to 1HC. The conclusion that can be drawn is that the author of the 1HC is Eudocia.

Keywords

императрица Евдокия, Патрикий, Гомеровский центон, авторство, позднеантичная литература, византийская литература, empress Eudocia, Patricius, Homeric cento, authorship, late ancient literature, Byzantian literature,

About the Author

Tatiana Aleksandrova

St. Tikhon Orthodox University
Russian Federation

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For citation: Aleksandrova T. The empress Eudocia and the 1st Homeric Cento redaction (authorship identification). RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2016;(6):81-100. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2016-6-81-100

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