Nonnus of Panopolis in Context
Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a section on Nonnus and the Modern World
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…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-11-033942-0
- EAN: 9783110339420
- Produktnummer: 15334341
- Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 584 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 24
Über den Autor
K. Spanoudakis,University of Crete, Rethymno, Crete, Greece.
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