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Nonnus of Panopolis in context : poetry and cultural milieu in Late Antiquity with a section on Nonnus and the modern world /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés Griego Antiguo |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ;
24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 educational, philosophical, religious and cultural context. The book inaugurates a new era of research for Nonnus and Late Antique poetics on the whole. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 564 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783110339420 3110339420 3110339374 9783110339376 9783110339437 3110339439 3110368110 9783110368116 |