Brill's companion to Nonnus of Panopolis / / edited by Domenico Accorinti.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions in Classical Studies,
• TeilnehmendeR: Accorinti, Domenico,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's companions in classical studies.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (904 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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 (3,660 lines in 21 books), is no doubt the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity. Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis provides a collection of 32 essays by a large international group of scholars, experts in the field of archaic, Hellenistic, Imperial, and Christian poetry, as well as scholars of late antique Egypt, Greek mythology and religion, who explore the various aspects of Nonnus’ baroque poetry and its historical, religious and cultural background.

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.