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edocfu_9958354127702883
Format:
1 online resource(xx,564p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin : De Gruyter. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110339420
Series Statement:
Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes; 24
Content:
Nonnus, a 5th-century poet from Panopolis (Egypt), composed the Dionysiaca, a mythological epic in 48 books, as well as a paraphrase of the Gospel of St John. He has long been a neglected and misrepresented figure. These 24 essays by an international team of experts place the poet in his time’s educational, philosophical, religious and cultural context. The book inaugurates a new era of research for Nonnus and Late Antique poetics on the whole.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Abbreviations --
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List of Contributors --
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Revisiting Old Problems: Literature and Religion in the Dionysiaca /
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Peitho in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca: the Case of Cadmus and Harmonia /
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Oracles in the Dionysiaca /
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Nonnus and the Orphic Argonautica /
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Orpheus and Orphic Hymns in the Dionysiaca /
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Ovidian Metamorphosis and Nonnian poikilon eidos /
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Contextualizing Nonnus’ Visual World /
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Cavero Personifications at the Service of Dionysus: the Bacchic Court /
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Faith and Fidelity in Biblical Epic /
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Nonnus’ Mystic Vocabulary Revisited: Mystis in Dionysiaca 9.111–31 /
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Neoplatonic Form and Content in Nonnus: Towards a New Reading of Nonnian Poetics /
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Rhetorical Elements in the Ampelus-episode: Dionysus’ Speech to Ampelus (Nonn. Dion. 10.196–216) /
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Judaic Orgies and Christ’s Bacchic Deeds: Dionysiac Terminology in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel /
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City and Landscape in Nonnus’ Paraphrase 12.51–69: Poetry and Exegesis /
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A Classical Myth in a Christian World: Nonnus’ Ariadne Episode (Dion. 47.265–475) /
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The Shield of Salvation: Dionysus’ Shield in Nonnus Dionysiaca 25.380–572 /
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The End of the "Nonnian School" /
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Poetic Inspiration in John of Gaza: Emotional Upheaval and Ecstasy in a Neoplatonic Poet /
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Nonnus in Gaza /
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A Learned Spiritual Ladder? /
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Simone Weil, Reader of the Dionysiaca /
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The Heros’ Quest of Dionysus as Individuation of an Age /
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Bibliography --
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List of Figures --
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Index of Greek Words or Phrases --
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Index of Passages --
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General Index.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110339376
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110339437
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110339420
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339420
