Nonnus of Panopolis in Context : : Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World /

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context : : Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World / / ed. by Konstantinos Spanoudakis.

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Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. L...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
MitwirkendeR:
Accorinti, Domenico,
Agosti, Gianfranco,
Aringer, Nina,
Carvounis, Katerina,
Chuvin, Pierre,
De Stefani, Claudio,
Doroszewski, Filip,
Faulkner, Andrew,
García-Gasco, Rosa,
Greco, Claudia,
Hernández de la Fuente, David,
Kröll, Nicole,
Lauritzen, Delphine,
Lightfoot, Jane,
Livrea, Enrico,
Miguélez, Laura,
Otlewska-Jung, Marta,
Paschalis, Michael,
Piccardi, Daria Gigli,
Shorrock, Robert,
Spanoudakis, Konstantinos,
Whitby, Mary,
HerausgeberIn:
Spanoudakis, Konstantinos,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 24
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Physical Description:1 online resource (564 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Contributors
  • I: Introduction
  • Revisiting Old Problems: Literature and Religion in the Dionysiaca
  • II: Nonnus and the Literary Past
  • Peitho in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca: the Case of Cadmus and Harmonia
  • Oracles in the Dionysiaca
  • Nonnus and the Orphic Argonautica
  • Orpheus and Orphic Hymns in the Dionysiaca
  • Ovidian Metamorphosis and Nonnian poikilon eidos
  • III: Nonnus and the Visual Arts
  • Contextualizing Nonnus’ Visual World
  • Cavero Personifications at the Service of Dionysus: the Bacchic Court
  • IV: Nonnus and Late Antique Paideia
  • Faith and Fidelity in Biblical Epic
  • Nonnus’ Mystic Vocabulary Revisited: Mystis in Dionysiaca 9.111–31
  • Neoplatonic Form and Content in Nonnus: Towards a New Reading of Nonnian Poetics
  • Rhetorical Elements in the Ampelus-episode: Dionysus’ Speech to Ampelus (Nonn. Dion. 10.196–216)
  • V: Nonnus and Christianity
  • Judaic Orgies and Christ’s Bacchic Deeds: Dionysiac Terminology in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel
  • City and Landscape in Nonnus’ Paraphrase 12.51–69: Poetry and Exegesis
  • A Classical Myth in a Christian World: Nonnus’ Ariadne Episode (Dion. 47.265–475)
  • The Shield of Salvation: Dionysus’ Shield in Nonnus Dionysiaca 25.380–572
  • VI: The “School” of Nonnus
  • The End of the “Nonnian School”
  • Poetic Inspiration in John of Gaza: Emotional Upheaval and Ecstasy in a Neoplatonic Poet
  • Nonnus in Gaza
  • A Learned Spiritual Ladder?
  • VII: Nonnus and the Modern World
  • Simone Weil, Reader of the Dionysiaca
  • The Heros’ Quest of Dionysus as Individuation of an Age
  • Bibliography
  • List of Figures
  • Index of Greek Words or Phrases
  • Index of Passages
  • General Index

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