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