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Brill's companion to Nonnus of Panopolis /

"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 G...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Accorinti, Domenico (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]
Colección:Brill's companions in classical studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.