Nonnus of Panopolis in Context: Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context

Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World

Edited by: Konstantinos Spanoudakis

Volume 24 in the series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339420

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Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the Dionysiaca, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. Little is known about the man, to whom sundry identities have been attached. The longer work has been misrepresented as a degenerate poem or as a mythological handbook. The Christian poem has been neglected or undervalued. Yet, Nonnus accomplished an ambitious plan, in two parts, aiming at representing world-history. This volume consists mainly of the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Nonnus held in Rethymno, Crete in May 2011. With twentyfour essays, an international team of specialists place Nonnus firmly in his time's context. After an authoritative Introduction by Pierre Chuvin, chapters on Nonnus and the literary past, the visual arts, Late Antique paideia, Christianity and his immediate and long-range afterlife (to modern times) offer a wide-ranging and innovative insight into the man and his world. The volume moves on beyond stereotypes to inaugurate a new era of research for Nonnus and Late Antique poetics on the whole.

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K. Spanoudakis, University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xv
I: Introduction
Revisiting Old Problems: Literature and Religion in the Dionysiaca Pierre Chuvin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
II: Nonnus and the Literary Past
Peitho in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca: the Case of Cadmus and Harmonia Katerina Carvounis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Oracles in the Dionysiaca Jane Lightfoot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Nonnus and the Orphic Argonautica Enrico Livrea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Orpheus and Orphic Hymns in the Dionysiaca Marta Otlewska-Jung Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Ovidian Metamorphosis and Nonnian poikilon eidos Michael Paschalis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
III: Nonnus and the Visual Arts
Contextualizing Nonnus’ Visual World Gianfranco Agosti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Cavero Personifications at the Service of Dionysus: the Bacchic Court Laura Miguélez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
IV: Nonnus and Late Antique Paideia
Faith and Fidelity in Biblical Epic Andrew Faulkner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Nonnus’ Mystic Vocabulary Revisited: Mystis in Dionysiaca 9.111–31 Rosa García-Gasco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Neoplatonic Form and Content in Nonnus: Towards a New Reading of Nonnian Poetics David Hernández de la Fuente Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Rhetorical Elements in the Ampelus-episode: Dionysus’ Speech to Ampelus (Nonn. Dion. 10.196–216) Nicole Kröll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
V: Nonnus and Christianity
Judaic Orgies and Christ’s Bacchic Deeds: Dionysiac Terminology in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel Filip Doroszewski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
City and Landscape in Nonnus’ Paraphrase 12.51–69: Poetry and Exegesis Claudia Greco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
A Classical Myth in a Christian World: Nonnus’ Ariadne Episode (Dion. 47.265–475) Robert Shorrock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
The Shield of Salvation: Dionysus’ Shield in Nonnus Dionysiaca 25.380–572 Konstantinos Spanoudakis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
VI: The “School” of Nonnus
The End of the “Nonnian School” Claudio De Stefani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
Poetic Inspiration in John of Gaza: Emotional Upheaval and Ecstasy in a Neoplatonic Poet Daria Gigli Piccardi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	403
Nonnus in Gaza The Expansion of Modern Poetry from Egypt to Palestine in the Early Sixth Century CE Delphine Lauritzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
A Learned Spiritual Ladder? Towards an Interpretation of George of Pisidia’s Hexameter Poem On Human Life Mary Whitby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
VII: Nonnus and the Modern World
Simone Weil, Reader of the Dionysiaca Domenico Accorinti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
The Heros’ Quest of Dionysus as Individuation of an Age Approaching the Dionysiaca under the Aspect of Jungian Archetypes and the Monomyth of Joseph Campbell Nina Aringer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539
Index of Greek Words or Phrases Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	541
Index of Passages Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Ancient philologists, Byzantine scholars
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 564
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
Keywords: Nonnus of Panopolis; late antiquity

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Published: July 16, 2014
ISBN: 9783110339420

Hardcover

Published: April 14, 2014
ISBN: 9783110339376