Nonnus of Panopolis in Context
Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9327643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kōnstantinos Spanudakēs (corresponding author) |
| Editors | Konstantinos Spanoudakis |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Nonnus of Panopolis in Context (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9783110339420 |
| OpenAlex | W2502500956 |
| ISBN | 9783110339420 |
| Open Library | OL37167847M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
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
Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Geography · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · Congresses · Criticism and interpretation · History and criticism · Literature, Modern · Literature, modern, history and criticism
Ovid on Screen
Tradition and Innovation in the Kosmos –Polis Analogy
All the World’s a Stage
Polis as Kosmos in Plato’s Laws
Aristotle on Kosmos and Kosmoi
Ordering the Universe in Speech
Cosmos in the Ancient World
Cosmic Choruses
Jesus’ Descent from the Cross in Ancient and Medieval Reception
The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic
Blaming Beauty for the Beast
The Poet and the Evangelist in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of the Gospel According to John
Sown Men and Rome’s Civil Wars
Contextualizing Quintus
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |