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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.

Christian literature --- Classical literature --- Influence. --- Eudocia, --- Homer

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Eudocia, --- Athens (Greece) --- Byzantine Empire --- Corfu Island (Greece). --- History. --- History.

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"What happens to Jesus when his story and ministry are told in narratives and lines lifted from Homer's epics? Empress Eudocia told the Jesus Story in this way, providing a genuinely interesting, prolific, and special piece of theological work"--

Theology in literature --- Eudocia, --- Jesus Christ --- In literature.

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Centos. --- Christian poetry, Greek. --- Eudocia, --- Homer --- Jesus Christ --- Adaptations. --- Bible --- History of Biblical events

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Empresses --- -Humanists --- -Scholars --- Monarchy --- Queens --- Biography --- Eudocia consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East --- Byzantine Empire --- -History --- -Empresses --- -Byzantium (Empire) --- Vizantii︠a︡ --- Bajo Imperio --- Bizancjum --- Byzantinē Autokratoria --- Vyzantinon Kratos --- Vyzantinē Autokratoria --- Impero bizantino --- Bizantia --- History --- Humanists --- Eudocia, --- Intellectual life --- -Bajo Imperio --- Byzantium (Empire) --- -Biography --- -Empresses - Byzantine Empire - Biography --- Humanists - Byzantine Empire - Biography --- Eudocia, - Empress, consort of Theodosius II, Emperor of the East, - -460 --- Byzantine Empire - History - Theodosius II, 408-450 --- Byzantine Empire - Intellectual life --- -History -