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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Domenico AccorintiPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.760kg ISBN: 9789004310117ISBN 10: 9004310118 Pages: 872 Publication Date: 24 March 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction: Becoming A Classic Domenico Accorinti Part 1 - Author, Context, and Religion 1 The Poet from Panopolis: An Obscure Biography and a Controversial Figure Domenico Accorinti 2 Nonnus' Panopolis Peter van Minnen 3 The Religious Background of Nonnus Jitse H.F. Dijkstra Part 2 - The Dionysiaca 4 Nonnus and Dionysiac-Orphic Religion Alberto Bernabe and Rosa Garcia-Gasco 5 The Poet of Dionysus: Birth of the Last among the Gods Pierre Chuvin 6 Major Themes and Motifs in the Dionysiaca Fotini Hadjittofi 7 Minor Characters in the Dionysiaca Berenice Verhelst 8 Narrative and Digression in the Dionysiaca Camille Geisz 9 The Psychology in the Dionysiaca Ronald F. Newbold Part 3 - The Paraphrase of St John's Gospel 10 Nonnus and Biblical Epic Mary Whitby 11 Approaching the `Spiritual Gospel': Nonnus as Interpreter of John Roberta Franchi 12 Nonnus' Paraphrastic Technique: A Case Study of Self-Recognition in John 9 Scott Fitzgerald Johnson 13 Nonnus and Christian Literature Christos Simelidis 14 Nonnus' Christology Fabian Sieber 15 The Mystery Terminology in Nonnus' Paraphrase Filip Doroszewski Part 4 - Metre, Style, Poetry, and Visual Arts 16 The Nonnian Hexameter Enrico Magnelli 17 Nonnus' Conventional Formulaic Style Gennaro D'Ippolito 18 Nonnus and the Play of Genres Anna Maria Lasek 19 Nonnus' Poetics Daria Gigli Piccardi 20 Nonnus and the Poetry of Ekphrasis in the Dionysiaca Riemer A. Faber 21 Nonnus and the Art of Late Antiquity Troels Myrup Kristensen Part 5 - Nonnus and the Classical Tradition 22 Nonnus and the Homeric Poems Herbert Bannert and Nicole Kroll 23 Composing the Masters: An Essay on Nonnus and Hellenistic Poetry Benjamin Acosta-Hughes 24 Nonnus and Imperial Greek Poetry Calum Alasdair Maciver 25 Nonnus and the Novel Laura Miguelez-Cavero Part 6 - An Interpretation of Nonnus' Work 26 Christian Themes in the Dionysiaca Robert Shorrock 27 Pagan Themes in the Paraphrase Konstantinos Spanoudakis 28 Nonnus and Prophecy: Between `Pagan' and `Christian' Voices Jane L. Lightfoot 29 Nonnus and Late Antique Society Gianfranco Agosti Part 7 - The Transmission and Reception of Nonnus' Poems 30 Brief Notes on the Manuscript Tradition of Nonnus' Works Claudio De Stefani 31 The Reception of Nonnus in Late Antiquity, Byzantine, and Renaissance Literature Francesco Tissoni 32 The Influence of Nonnus on Baroque and Modern Literature David Hernandez de la Fuente Bibliography General Index Index of Principal Nonnian PassagesReviews''In scope, scale and breath, Accorinti and his team deserve plaudits: the project has more than achieved its aim of providing a wide-ranging reference work for scholars of Nonnus and Late Antiquity. The expertise of the collaborators is apparent at every turn of the page; so too is the enthusiasm. Well presented with very few spelling or typographical errors,5 it will become an undoubtedly useful handbook for all future readers who come to ask the poet their questions.'' Emma Greensmith, Plekos 2018.20 Author InformationDomenico Accorinti, Ph.D. (1992), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is an independent researcher and teaches Classics at the Gymnasium Galilei, Pisa. He has published on late Greek poetry, mythology, and the history of religions, including Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927-1958, Brill (2014). Contributors are: Domenico Accorinti, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Gianfranco Agosti, Herbert Bannert, Alberto Bernabe, Pierre Chuvin, Claudio De Stefani, Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, Gennaro D'Ippolito, Filip Doroszewski, Riemer A. Faber, Roberta Franchi, Rosa Garcia-Gasco, Camille Geisz, Daria Gigli Piccardi, Fotini Hadjittofi, David Hernandez de la Fuente, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Troels Myrup Kristensen, Nicole Kroell, Anna Maria Lasek, Jane L. Lightfoot, Calum Alasdair Maciver, Enrico Magnelli, Laura Miguelez-Cavero, Peter van Minnen, Ronald F. Newbold, Robert Shorrock, Fabian Sieber, Christos Simelidis, Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Francesco Tissoni, Berenice Verhelst, and Mary Whitby. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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