Nonnus of Panopolis in context : poetry and cultural milieu in Late Antiquity with a section on Nonnus and the modern world /

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Nonnus, a 5th-century poet from Panopolis (Egypt), composed the Dionysiaca, a mythological epic in 48 books, as well as a paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. He has long been a neglected and misrepresented figure. These 24 essays by an international team of experts place the poet in his time's...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Spanoudakis, Konstantinos (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Griego Antiguo
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2014]
Colección:Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; 24.
Temas:
Nonnus, > of Panopolis > Criticism and interpretation.
Nonnus, > of Panopolis
Nonnus > Panopolitanus > ca. 5. Jh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Contributors
  • Revisiting Old Problems: Literature and Religion in the Dionysiaca / Chuvin, Pierre
  • Peitho in Nonnus' Dionysiaca: the Case of Cadmus and Harmonia / Carvounis, Katerina
  • Oracles in the Dionysiaca / Lightfoot, Jane
  • Nonnus and the Orphic Argonautica / Livrea, Enrico
  • Orpheus and Orphic Hymns in the Dionysiaca / Otlewska-Jung, Marta
  • Ovidian Metamorphosis and Nonnian poikilon eidos / Paschalis, Michael
  • Contextualizing Nonnus' Visual World / Agosti, Gianfranco
  • Cavero Personifications at the Service of Dionysus: the Bacchic Court / Miguélez, Laura
  • Faith and Fidelity in Biblical Epic / Faulkner, Andrew
  • Nonnus' Mystic Vocabulary Revisited: Mystis in Dionysiaca 9.111-31 / García-Gasco, Rosa
  • Neoplatonic Form and Content in Nonnus: Towards a New Reading of Nonnian Poetics / Hernández de la Fuente, David
  • Rhetorical Elements in the Ampelus-episode: Dionysus' Speech to Ampelus (Nonn. Dion. 10.196-216) / Kröll, Nicole
  • Judaic Orgies and Christ's Bacchic Deeds: Dionysiac Terminology in Nonnus' Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel / Doroszewski, Filip
  • City and Landscape in Nonnus' Paraphrase 12.51-69: Poetry and Exegesis / Greco, Claudia
  • A Classical Myth in a Christian World: Nonnus' Ariadne Episode (Dion. 47.265-475) / Shorrock, Robert
  • The Shield of Salvation: Dionysus' Shield in Nonnus Dionysiaca 25.380-572 / Spanoudakis, Konstantinos
  • The End of the "Nonnian School" / De Stefani, Claudio
  • Poetic Inspiration in John of Gaza: Emotional Upheaval and Ecstasy in a Neoplatonic Poet / Piccardi, Daria Gigli
  • Nonnus in Gaza / Lauritzen, Delphine
  • A Learned Spiritual Ladder? / Whitby, Mary
  • Simone Weil, Reader of the Dionysiaca / Accorinti, Domenico
  • The Heros' Quest of Dionysus as Individuation of an Age / Aringer, Nina
  • Bibliography
  • List of Figures
  • Index of Greek Words or Phrases
  • Index of Passages
  • General Index.

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