Nonnus of Panopolis in context III : old questions and new perspectives /

"Nonnus of Panopolis (5th c. AD), the most important Greek poet of Late Antiquity, is best known for his Dionysiaca, a grand epic that gathers together all myths associated with Dionysus, god of wine and mysteries. The poet also authored the Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel which renders th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Doroszewski, Filip, 1980- (Editor ), Jazdzewska, Katarzyna (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Brill, 2020.
Colección:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 438.
Temas:
Nonnus, > of Panopolis > Criticism and interpretation.
Nonnus, > of Panopolis
Byzantine literature > History and criticism.
Littérature byzantine > Histoire et critique.
Byzantine literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Figures
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction. Solved and Still Unsolved Issues about Nonnus and His Works (D'Ippolito)
  • Part 1. Nonnus and the Literary Tradition
  • Chapter 1. "Breaking the Fourth Wall": On Literariness and Metalepsis in Nonnus' Dionysiaca (Verhelst)
  • Chapter 2. Junctures of Epic and Encomium in the Dionysiaca: The Episode of Staphylos (Miguélez-Cavero)
  • Chapter 3. Aura's Metamorphosis in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus: A Tale of Classical and Christian Resonances (Lefteratou)
  • Chapter 4. I Alone Had an Untimely Love: The Ephebic 'Epyllia' of Dionysiaka 10-11 (Acosta-Hughes)
  • Chapter 5. Nonnus' Dionysiaca and the Latin Tradition: The Episode of Ampelus (Carvounis and Papaioannou)
  • Chapter 6. Nonnus and Coptic Literature: Further Explorations (Agosti)
  • Part 2. Literary Structure and Motifs in the Dionysiaca
  • Chapter 7. Visualizing Actaeon: The Motif of Recognition in Nonnus' Treatment of the Metamorphosis (Schoess)
  • Chapter 8. Structure and Meaning through Analogy: Remarks on the Use of Spatial Form in the Dionysiaca (Geisz)
  • Chapter 18. Presentation of Biblical Figures in Poetic Paraphrase: John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate in Nonnus' Paraphrase of St. John's Gospel (Franco and Ypsilanti)
  • Part 4. Nonnus and Late Antique Culture
  • Chapter 19. Sacrificing a Serpent: Nonnus' Dionysiaca 2.671-679 and the Orphic Lithica 736-744 (Osek)
  • Chapter 20. The Mystic Reception of Theocritus in Late Antiquity (Spanoudakis)
  • Chapter 21. Sites and Cities in Late Antique Literature: Athens, Berytus, and Cultural Self-Identification in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis (Kröll)
  • Part 5. Reception of Nonnus

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