{"product_id":"nonnus-of-panopolis-in-context-iii-old-questions-and-new-perspectives-9789004443235","title":"Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III: Old Questions and New Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNonnus of Panopolis (5th c. AD), the most important Greek poet of Late Antiquity, is best known for his Dionysiaca, a grand epic that gathers together all myths associated with Dionysus, god of wine and mysteries. The poet also authored the Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel  which renders the Fourth Gospel into sophisticated hexameter verse.  This volume, edited by Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska, brings together twenty-six essays by eminent scholars that discuss Nonnus’ cultural and literary background, the literary techniques and motifs used by the poet, as well as the composition of the Dionysiaca and the exegetical principles applied in the Paraphrase. As such, the book will significantly deepen our understanding of literary culture and religion in Late Antiquity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Nonnus of Panopolis in Context series has been, for a number of years, the largest gathering of interesting perspectives and ideas on Nonnus and his works, and this third volume continues that tradition while setting out directions for the future. With this volume, the field of Nonnian scholarship finally feels like a fully mature, confident academic space, rather than the more hesitant area of study striving for legitimacy and attention that it has been until recently. None of the hesitation or acknowledgement of older, extremely questionable theories and questions of minimal value that have been so prevalent in Nonnian scholarship can be found in this collection, which instead approaches the poems with fresh eyes and exciting ideas. The volume serves as an excellent overview of where the field stands in 2021 and sets out clear aspirations of where we should go next.\" Oliver Gerlach, The Classical Review 71.2 379–381.   \"In sum, this collection, which is accompanied by, inter alia, a wide bibliography and useful indices, marks another step forward in the studies on Nonnus' poetry and, at the same time, demonstrates once again how deep and complex it is by providing many starting points for further research.\" Arianna Magnolo in BMCR 2022.03.11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  List of Figures  Notes on Contributors    Introduction: Solved and Still Unsolved Issues about Nonnus and His Works   Gennaro D’Ippolito    Part 1 Nonnus and the Literary Tradition    1 “Breaking the Fourth Wall”: On Literariness and Metalepsis in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca   Berenice Verhelst    2 Junctures of Epic and Encomium in the Dionysiaca: The Episode of Staphylos   Laura Miguélez-Cavero    3 Aura’s Metamorphosis in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus: A Tale of Classical Resonances and Christian Imagery   Anna Lefteratou    4 I Had Only an Untimely Love: The Ephebic ‘Epyllia’ of Dionysiaka 10–11   Benjamin Acosta-Hughes    5 Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Latin Tradition: The Episode of Ampelus   Katerina Carvounis and Sophia Papaioannou    6 Nonnus and Coptic Literature: Further Explorations   Gianfranco Agosti    Part 2 Literary Structure and Motifs in the Dionysiaca    7 Visualizing Actaeon: The Motif of Recognition in Nonnus’ Treatment of the Metamorphosis   A. Sophie Schoess    8 Structure and Meaning through Analogy: Remarks on the Use of Spatial Form in the Dionysiaca   Camille Geisz    9 Some Aspects of Nonnus’ Poetics: Antitypical Poetry in the Dionysiaca   Nestan Egetashvili    10 Ἁρμονίη κόσμου and ἁρμονίη ἀνδρῶν: On the Different Concepts of Harmony in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus   Marta Otlewska-Jung    11 The Awakening of Ariadne in Nonnus: A Deliberate Metaphor   David Hernández de la Fuente    12 Female Characterization and Gender Reversal in Nonnus and Colluthus   Cosetta Cadau    13 Empowered Effeminacy? The Inversion of Gender Norms in the Episodes of Europa and Cadmus   Fotini Hadjittofi    Part 3 Exegesis through Paraphrase    14 Ἀληθείῃ καὶ πνεύματι (Par. 4.114): Some Doctrinal Issues in Nonnus’ Paraphrase and Their Theological Implications   Roberta Franchi    15 Nonnus and the Book   Jane Lucy Lightfoot    16 Shepherding the Past: Nonnus’ Parable of the Good Shepherd between Pagan Models and Christian Exegesis   Margherita Maria di Nino and Maria Ypsilanti    17 Amplification in Juvencus’ Evangeliorum Libri iv and in Nonnus’ Μεταβολὴ τοῦ κατὰ Ιωάννην ἁγίου εὐαγγελίου   Michael Paschalis    18 Presentation of Biblical Figures in Poetic Paraphrase: John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel   Laura Franco and Maria Ypsilanti    Part 4 Nonnus and Late Antique Culture    19 Sacrificing a Serpent: Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 2.671–679 and the Orphic Lithica 736–744   Ewa Osek    20 The Mystic Reception of Theocritus in Late Antiquity   Konstantinos Spanoudakis    21 Sites and Cities in Late Antique Literature: Athens, Berytus, and Cultural Self-Identification in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis   Nicole Kröll    Part 5 Reception of Nonnus    22 An Unknown “Nonnian” Poet: John of Memphis   Enrico Magnelli    23 Nonnus, Christodorus, and the Epigrams of George of Pisidia   Mary Whitby    24 Photius, the Suda, and Eustathius: Eloquent Silences and Omissions in the Reception of Nonnus’ Work in Byzantine Literature   Domenico Accorinti    25 Boom Years of Nonnian Studies? On the Reception of Nonnus in Germany (1880–1976)   Fabian Sieber    Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210811072855,"sku":"9789004443235","price":138.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nonnus-of-panopolis-in-context-iii-old-questions-and-new-perspectives-9789004443235","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}