Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis

905 Pages·2016·13.3 MB·English

by  Domenico Accorinti

Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis
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Brill’s Companion to Nonnus
of Panopolis
Edited by
Domenico Accorinti
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Names: Accorinti, Domenico, editor.
Title: Brill’s companion to Nonnus of Panopolis / Edited by Domenico
 Accorinti.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016. | Series: Brill’s companions in
 classical studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subjects: LCSH: Nonnus, of Panopolis—Criticism and interpretation.
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Contents
Acknowledgements xi
List of Abbreviations xvi
List of Illustrations xix
List of Contributors xxiii
Introduction: Becoming A Classic 1
Domenico Accorinti
Part 1
Author, Context, and Religion
1 The Poet from Panopolis: An Obscure Biography and a Controversial
Figure 11
Domenico Accorinti
2 Nonnus’ Panopolis 54
Peter van Minnen
3 The Religious Background of Nonnus 75
Jitse H.F. Dijkstra
Part 2
The Dionysiaca
4 Nonnus and Dionysiac-Orphic Religion 91
Alberto Bernabé and Rosa García-Gasco
5 The Poet of Dionysus: Birth of the Last among the Gods 111
Pierre Chuvin
6 Major Themes and Motifs in the Dionysiaca 125
Fotini Hadjittofi
7 Minor Characters in the Dionysiaca 152
Berenice Verhelst
viii contents
8 Narrative and Digression in the Dionysiaca 173
Camille Geisz
9 The Psychology in the Dionysiaca 193
Ronald F. Newbold
Part 3
The Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel
10 Nonnus and Biblical Epic 215
Mary Whitby
11 Approaching the ‘Spiritual Gospel’: Nonnus as Interpreter of
John 240
Roberta Franchi
12 Nonnus’ Paraphrastic Technique: A Case Study of Self-Recognition in
John 9 267
Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
13 Nonnus and Christian Literature 289
Christos Simelidis
14 Nonnus’ Christology 308
Fabian Sieber
15 The Mystery Terminology in Nonnus’ Paraphrase 327
Filip Doroszewski
Part 4
Metre, Style, Poetry, and Visual Arts
16 The Nonnian Hexameter 353
Enrico Magnelli
17 Nonnus’ Conventional Formulaic Style 372
Gennaro D’Ippolito
Contents ix
18 Nonnus and the Play of Genres 402
Anna Maria Lasek
19 Nonnus’ Poetics 422
Daria Gigli Piccardi
20 Nonnus and the Poetry of Ekphrasis in the Dionysiaca 443
Riemer A. Faber
21 Nonnus and the Art of Late Antiquity 460
Troels Myrup Kristensen
Part 5
Nonnus and the Classical Tradition
22 Nonnus and the Homeric Poems 481
Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kröll
23 Composing the Masters: An Essay on Nonnus and Hellenistic
Poetry 507
Benjamin Acosta-Hughes
24 Nonnus and Imperial Greek Poetry 529
Calum Alasdair Maciver
25 Nonnus and the Novel 549
Laura Miguélez-Cavero
Part 6
An Interpretation of Nonnus’ Work
26 Christian Themes in the Dionysiaca 577
Robert Shorrock
27 Pagan Themes in the Paraphrase 601
Konstantinos Spanoudakis