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Book SynopsisDirect Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca is the first extensive study of speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (5th century AD). It presents an in-depth analysis of the narrative functions of direct speech and their implications for the presentation of the epic story. The digital appendix to this book (Database of Direct Speech in Greek Epic Poetry) can be consulted online at www.dsgep.ugent.be.
Trade Review‘Dans un contexte où les études consacrées à la poésie tardive et plus particulière ment aux hexamètres «homérisants» de Nonnos de Panopolis sont florissantes, l’ouvrage de Berenice Verehlst, issu d’une thèse soutenue en 2014, apporte sa pierre à un édifice dont la forme se dessine de plus en plus précisément.’ Halima Benchikh-Lehocine, in Aitia vol. 8.2 (2018)
Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Variation or Incoherence; Virtue or Vice? Direct Speech in the Dionysiaca Objectives and Approaches part 1 - Epic Speech in Transformation 1 Imitation and Transformation: From Troy to India and from Medea to Morrheus 1.1 Speeches and Dialogues in the Διὸς ἀπάτη Episode 1.2 A Speech for a Speech: Apollonius Inverted 1.3 Nonnus and Quintus (or Libanius): Τίνας ἂν εἴποι λόγους; 1.4 Speech Composition and Narrative Structures 2 Types of Epic Speech: The Battle Exhortation 2.1 Defining the Corpus: The Epic and the Historiographical Tradition 2.2 Exhortations in Nonnus: Subtypes of the Battle Exhortation 2.3 Exhortative Topoi and Recurring Motifs in Nonnus 2.4 Selected Examples: Untraditional Exhortations in Nonnus 2.5 Epic and Rhetorical Conventions 3 Speeches within Speeches 3.1 Potential τις-Speech in Nonnus: A Homeric Device Revived 3.2 More Hypothetical Speeches 3.3 Hypothetical Speech, a “Nonnian” Device part 2 - Rhetoric and Narrative 4 The Rhetoric of Deception: Persuasive Strategies 4.1 Deceptive Speeches 4.2 Speaking in Disguise: ἦθος, πάθος and Authority 4.3 Hera’s Deception of Semele: A Case Study 4.4 True or False? As Long as It is Artful 5 Ecphrastic Ethopoeae and the Perspective of the Text-Internal Observer 5.1 Suddenly Appearing Characters and Their Speeches 5.2 Looking through the Text-Internal Observer’s Eyes 5.3 Comments from Above 5.4 A Double Role 6 Rhetoric of Seduction and Failure of Communication in the Beroe Episode 6.1 Amatory Rhetoric: The Case of the παρθένοι φυγόδεμνοι 6.2 Beirut and Beroe 6.3 Dionysus and Poseidon Courting Beroe: A Series of Amorous Approaches 6.4 Fruitless Metaphors and Arguments Unheard Conclusion One More Speech: Aura’s Last Words Οὔ πω μῦθος ἔληγε: General Observations on Direct Speech in Nonnus Appendix - Summary of the Dionysiaca Bibliography General Index Index Locorum
