Nonnus of Panopolis in context II : : poetry, religion, and society : proceedings of the international conference on Nonnus of Panopolis, 26th-29th September 2013, University of Vienna, Austria /

Nonnus of Panopolis in context II : : poetry, religion, and society : proceedings of the international conference on Nonnus of Panopolis, 26th-29th September 2013, University of Vienna, Austria / / edited by Herbert Bannert, Nicole Kröll.

Nonnus of Panopolis in Upper-Egypt is the author of the 48 books of the last large scale mythological epic in antiquity, the Dionysiaca . The same author also wrote an epic poem on the life and times of Jesus Christ according to St John’s Gospel . Nonnus has an outstanding position in ancient litera...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, Supplements. Late Antique Literature, Volume 408
TeilnehmendeR:
Bannert, Herbert,
Kröll, Nicole,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
German
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Late antique literature ; Volume 408.
Physical Description:1 online resource (436 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Nonnus, from Our Time to His. A Retrospective Glance at Nonnian Studies (Notably the Dionysiaca) since the 1930s / Pierre Chuvin
  • The Cadmus Narrative in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca / Michael Paschalis
  • Dionysus, Ampelus, and Mythological Examples in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca / Katerina Carvounis
  • Nonnus’ Catalogic Strategies. A Preliminary Approach to the Dionysiaca / Laura Miguélez-Cavero
  • Mythographic Lists as Sources of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus / Simon Zuenelli
  • Similes and Comparisons in the Dionysiaca: Imitation, Innovation, Erudition / Camille Geisz
  • What a Wonder! Looking through the Text-Internal Observer’s Eyes in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca / Berenice Verhelst
  • The Tablets of Harmonia and the Role of Poet and Reader in the Dionysiaca / Joshua Fincher
  • In the Beginning was the Voice / Jane L. Lightfoot
  • Words and Their Meaning. On the Chronology of the Paraphrasis of St John’s Gospel / Fabian Sieber
  • Characterization of Persons and Groups of Persons in the Metabole / Maria Ypsilanti and Laura Franco
  • The Wise Mysteries of the Sacrificial Hour. Nonnus’ Exegesis of John 4.23 / Filip Doroszewski
  • Flumina de ventre eius fluent aquae vivae. Nonnus’ Paraphrase 7.143–148, John 7.37–38, and the Symbolism of Living Water / Roberta Franchi
  • The Staphylus Episode. Nonnus and the Secret Gospel of Mark / Konstantinos Spanoudakis
  • Nonnus and Pindar / Daria Gigli Piccardi
  • Christodorus of Coptus on the Statues in the Baths of Zeuxippus at Constantinople. Text and Context / Mary Whitby
  • An Attempt to Remove the Asia-Europe Opposition. Καύκασος in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis / Nestan Egetashvili
  • Metrische Beobachtungen zum Hexameter der Disticha des Kyklos / Claudio De Stefani
  • Die Versuchung des Nonnos. Der Mythos als Brücke zwischen Heiden- und Christentum / Domenico Accorinti
  • The Quest for Nonnus’ Life. From Scholarship to Fiction / David Hernández de la Fuente
  • Ut poesis pictura. Nonnus’ Europa Episode as Poetry and Painting / Robert Shorrock
  • Note on Panopolis in Upper Egypt (Now Akhmim, Governorate Sohag) in Late Antiquity and After / Michael Zach
  • Bibliography
  • Indexes.

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