Brill's companion to Nonnus of Panopolis /

Brill's companion to Nonnus of Panopolis /

The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the 'pagan' Dionysiaca , the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a 'Christian' hexameter Paraphrase of St John's Gospel...

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Other Authors: Accorinti, Domenico.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Studies.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online III, ISBN: 9789004249301.

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Nonnus, > of Panopolis > Criticism and interpretation.

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Call Number: PA4252

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Becoming A Classic /
  • Domenico Accorinti
  • 1 The Poet from Panopolis: An Obscure Biography and a Controversial Figure /
  • Domenico Accorinti
  • 2 Nonnus' Panopolis /
  • Peter van Minnen
  • 3 The Religious Background of Nonnus /
  • Jitse H.F. Dijkstra
  • 4 Nonnus and Dionysiac-Orphic Religion /
  • Alberto Bernabé and Rosa García-Gasco
  • 5 The Poet of Dionysus: Birth of the Last among the Gods /
  • Pierre Chuvin
  • 6 Major Themes and Motifs in the Dionysiaca /
  • Fotini Hadjittofi
  • 7 Minor Characters in the Dionysiaca /
  • Berenice Verhelst
  • 8 Narrative and Digression in the Dionysiaca /
  • Camille Geisz
  • 9 The Psychology in the Dionysiaca /
  • Ronald F. Newbold
  • 10 Nonnus and Biblical Epic /
  • Mary Whitby
  • 11 Approaching the 'Spiritual Gospel': Nonnus as Interpreter of John /
  • Roberta Franchi
  • 12 Nonnus' Paraphrastic Technique: A Case Study of Self-Recognition in John 9 /
  • Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
  • 13 Nonnus and Christian Literature /
  • Christos Simelidis
  • 14 Nonnus' Christology /
  • Fabian Sieber
  • 15 The Mystery Terminology in Nonnus' Paraphrase /
  • Filip Doroszewski
  • 16 The Nonnian Hexameter /
  • Enrico Magnelli
  • 17 Nonnus' Conventional Formulaic Style /
  • Gennaro D'Ippolito
  • 18 Nonnus and the Play of Genres /
  • Anna Maria Lasek
  • 19 Nonnus' Poetics /
  • Daria Gigli Piccardi
  • 20 Nonnus and the Poetry of Ekphrasis in the Dionysiaca /
  • Riemer A. Faber
  • 21 Nonnus and the Art of Late Antiquity /
  • Troels Myrup Kristensen
  • 22 Nonnus and the Homeric Poems /
  • Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kröll
  • 23 Composing the Masters: An Essay on Nonnus and Hellenistic Poetry /
  • Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
  • 24 Nonnus and Imperial Greek Poetry /
  • Calum Alasdair Maciver
  • 25 Nonnus and the Novel /
  • Laura Miguélez-Cavero
  • 26 Christian Themes in the Dionysiaca /
  • Robert Shorrock
  • 27 Pagan Themes in the Paraphrase /
  • Konstantinos Spanoudakis
  • 28 Nonnus and Prophecy: Between 'Pagan' and 'Christian' Voices /
  • Jane L. Lightfoot
  • 29 Nonnus and Late Antique Society /
  • Gianfranco Agosti
  • 30 Brief Notes on the Manuscript Tradition of Nonnus' Works /
  • Claudio De Stefani
  • 31 The Reception of Nonnus in Late Antiquity, Byzantine, and Renaissance Literature /
  • Francesco Tissoni
  • 32 The Influence of Nonnus on Baroque and Modern Literature /
  • David Hernández de la Fuente
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Index of Principal Nonnian Passages.