Nonnus of Panopolis in context II : : poetry, religion, and society : proceedings of the international conference on Nonnus of Panopolis, 26th-29th September 2013, University of Vienna, Austria / / edited by Herbert Bannert, Nicole Kröll.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, Supplements. Late Antique Literature, Volume 408
• TeilnehmendeR: Bannert, Herbert,; Kröll, Nicole,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English; German
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Late antique literature ; Volume 408.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (436 pages) :; illustrations.

Nonnus of Panopolis in Upper-Egypt is the author of the 48 books of the last large scale mythological epic in antiquity, the Dionysiaca . The same author also wrote an epic poem on the life and times of Jesus Christ according to St John’s Gospel . Nonnus has an outstanding position in ancient literature being at the same time a pagan and a Christian author, living in a time when Christianity was common in the Roman empire, while pagan culture and traditional world views were still maintained. The volume is designed to cover literary, cultural and religious aspects of Nonnus’ poetry as well as to highlight the social and educational background of both the Dionysiaca and the Paraphrasis of the Gospel of St. John .

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Nonnus, from Our Time to His. A Retrospective Glance at Nonnian Studies (Notably the Dionysiaca) since the 1930s / Pierre Chuvin -- The Cadmus Narrative in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca / Michael Paschalis -- Dionysus, Ampelus, and Mythological Examples in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca / Katerina Carvounis -- Nonnus’ Catalogic Strategies. A Preliminary Approach to the Dionysiaca / Laura Miguélez-Cavero -- Mythographic Lists as Sources of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus / Simon Zuenelli -- Similes and Comparisons in the Dionysiaca: Imitation, Innovation, Erudition / Camille Geisz -- What a Wonder! Looking through the Text-Internal Observer’s Eyes in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca / Berenice Verhelst -- The Tablets of Harmonia and the Role of Poet and Reader in the Dionysiaca / Joshua Fincher -- In the Beginning was the Voice / Jane L. Lightfoot -- Words and Their Meaning. On the Chronology of the Paraphrasis of St John’s Gospel / Fabian Sieber -- Characterization of Persons and Groups of Persons in the Metabole / Maria Ypsilanti and Laura Franco -- The Wise Mysteries of the Sacrificial Hour. Nonnus’ Exegesis of John 4.23 / Filip Doroszewski -- Flumina de ventre eius fluent aquae vivae. Nonnus’ Paraphrase 7.143–148, John 7.37–38, and the Symbolism of Living Water / Roberta Franchi -- The Staphylus Episode. Nonnus and the Secret Gospel of Mark / Konstantinos Spanoudakis -- Nonnus and Pindar / Daria Gigli Piccardi -- Christodorus of Coptus on the Statues in the Baths of Zeuxippus at Constantinople. Text and Context / Mary Whitby -- An Attempt to Remove the Asia-Europe Opposition. Καύκασος in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis / Nestan Egetashvili -- Metrische Beobachtungen zum Hexameter der Disticha des Kyklos / Claudio De Stefani -- Die Versuchung des Nonnos. Der Mythos als Brücke zwischen Heiden- und Christentum / Domenico Accorinti -- The Quest for Nonnus’ Life. From Scholarship to Fiction / David Hernández de la Fuente -- Ut poesis pictura. Nonnus’ Europa Episode as Poetry and Painting / Robert Shorrock -- Note on Panopolis in Upper Egypt (Now Akhmim, Governorate Sohag) in Late Antiquity and After / Michael Zach -- Bibliography -- Indexes.