Aelia Eudocia Augusta 401 AD-460 AD

F.22.9. Homerici centones, à veteribus vocati Homerokentra (1578)

Aelia Eudocia Augusta, also called Saint Eudocia, was a Greek Eastern Roman Empress by marriage to Theodosius II. Having been banished from court for adultery in 443 she focused on her writing, only some of which survives today, and includes “The Martyrdom of St. Cyprian”, a poem in hexameters inscribed on the baths at Hamat Gader, and the Homeric centos. The Homerocentra, or Life of Our Saviour, are poems made up of verses of Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey, with only slight modification. It has been argued that Patricius started the work and Eudocia expanded it.