Brill's companion to Nonnus of Panopolis / / edited by Domenico Accorinti.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions in Classical Studies,
• TeilnehmendeR: Accorinti, Domenico,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Publicatiejaar: 2016
• Taal: English
• Reeks: Brill's companions in classical studies.
• Fysieke beschrijving: 1 online resource (904 pages) :; illustrations.
• Aantekeningen: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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 Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 books...