Direct speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca : narrative and rhetorical functions of the characters' "varied" and "many-faceted" words /

Direct Speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca is the first more extensive study of the use and functions of direct speech in Nonnus' Dionysiaca (5th century AD). Its long soliloquies and scarcity of dialogues have often been pointed out as striking characteristics of Nonnus' epic style, but non...

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Main Author: Verhelst, Berenice, 1987-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 397.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

Subjects:

Nonnus, > of Panopolis. > Dionysiaca.

Direct discourse in literature.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

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