Nonnos Dionysiaca (Volume II)

Nonnos Dionysiaca (Volume II) PDF Author:
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354036583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Nonnos Dionysiaca (Volume II)

Nonnos Dionysiaca (Volume II) PDF Author:
Publisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789354036583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Book Description
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Direct Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca

Direct Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca PDF Author: Berenice Verhelst
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004334653
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Direct Speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca is the first more extensive study of the use and functions of direct speech in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (5th century AD). Its long soliloquies and scarcity of dialogues have often been pointed out as striking characteristics of Nonnus’ epic style, but nonetheless this fascinating subject received relatively little attention. Berenice Verhelst aims to reveal the poem’s constant interplay between the epic tradition and the late antique literary context with its clear rhetorical stamp. She focusses on the changed functions of direct speech and their implications for the presentation of the mythological story. Organized around six case studies, this book presents an in-depth analysis of a representative part of the vast corpus of the Dionysiaca’s 305 speeches. The digital appendix to this book (Database of Direct Speech in Greek Epic Poetry) can be consulted online at www.dsgep.ugent.be.

Tales of Dionysus

Tales of Dionysus PDF Author: William Levitan
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472038966
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817

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The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004443258
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 549

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Book Description
Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III, edited by Filip Doroszewski and Katarzyna Jażdżewska, explores both old and new questions about the poet and his works ‒ the grand mythological epic Dionysiaca and the hexameter Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel.

Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis

Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900431069X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 904

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The Egyptian Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century AD), author of both the ‘pagan’ Dionysiaca, the longest known poem from Antiquity (21,286 lines in 48 books, the same number of books as the Iliad and Odyssey combined), and a ‘Christian’ hexameter Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel (3,660 lines in 21 books), is no doubt the most representative poet of Greek Late Antiquity. Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis provides a collection of 32 essays by a large international group of scholars, experts in the field of archaic, Hellenistic, Imperial, and Christian poetry, as well as scholars of late antique Egypt, Greek mythology and religion, who explore the various aspects of Nonnus’ baroque poetry and its historical, religious and cultural background.

The Challenge of Epic

The Challenge of Epic PDF Author: Robert Shorrock
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004117952
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Book Description
This book offers a literary-critical rehabilitation of Nonnus' fitfth century AD epic. It argues for the centrality of allusive strategies, both intertextual and metapoetic, thus allowing a re-engagement with the challenge of reading late-antique poetry.

Redefining Dionysos

Redefining Dionysos PDF Author: Alberto Bernabé
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110301326
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Book Description
This book contributes to the understanding of Dionysos, the Greek god of wine, dancing, theatre and ecstasy, by putting together 30 studies of classical scholars. They combine the analysis of specific instances of particular dimensions of the god in cult, myth, literature and iconography, with general visions of Dionysos in antiquity and modern times. Only from the combination of different perspectives can we grasp the complex personality of Dionysos, and the forms of his presence in different cults, literary genres, and artistic forms, from Mycenaean times to late antiquity. The ways in which Dionysos was experienced may vary in each author, each cult, and each genre in which this god is involved. Therefore, instead of offering a new all-encompassing theory that would immediately become partial, the book narrows the focus on specific aspects of the god. Redefinition does not mean finding (again) the essence of the god, but obtaining a more nuanced knowledge of the ways he was experienced and conceived in antiquity.

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context PDF Author: Konstantinos Spanoudakis
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110339420
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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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.

Hercules

Hercules PDF Author: Nancy Loewen
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9780736800495
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58

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Book Description
Surveys classical mythology, discussing the relationship between Greek and Roman myths, and describes the birth and life of the demigod Hercules, known as Heracles in Greek mythology.

Dionysiaca

Dionysiaca PDF Author: Nonnus (of Panopolis.)
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard U. P
ISBN:
Category : Dionysus (Greek deity).
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt, who lived in the fifth century of our era, composed the last great epic poem of antiquity. The Dionysiaca, in 48 books, has for its chief theme the expedition of Dionysus against the Indians; but the poet contrives to include all the adventures of the god (as well as much other mythological lore) in a narrative which begins with chaos in heaven and ends with the apotheosis of Ariadne's crown. The wild ecstasy inspired by the god is certainly reflected in the poet's style, which is baroque, extravagant, and unrestrained. It seems that Nonnos was in later years converted to Christianity, for in marked contrast to the Dionysiaca, a poem dealing unreservedly with classical myths completely redolent of a pagan outlook, there is extant and ascribed to him a hexameter paraphrase of St. John's Gospel.