ὑμετέρης γενεῆς τε καὶ αἵματος εὔχομαι εἶναι (Eudocia's Laudes Antiochiae ; cf. Il . 6.211, 20.241). 1 The article argues that in Eudocia's fifth-century Martyrdom of St Cyprian – the only surviving Greek verse paraphrase a hagiography certain Odyssean lexical items and intertexts may be thematically grouped. A new category, ‘diatext’, is introduced to describe this function Odyssey as an inter...