Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III

Old Questions and New Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44323-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 438, 526 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1039 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements / Mnemosyne, Supplements, Late Antique Literature

Nonnus 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 Jazdzewska, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Doroszewski, Filip

Jazdzewska, Katarzyna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

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 ??µ???? ??sµ?? and ??µ???? ??d???: 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 ????e?? ?a? p?e?µat? (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’ ?etaß??? t?? ?at? ??????? ????? e?a??e????

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

Über Autor(innen)

Filip Doroszewski is Assistant Professor of Classics at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. His recent publications include a monograph on Nonnus’ Paraphrase (De Gruyter, forthcoming) as well as an edited volume on Dionysus and politics in antiquity (Routledge, forthcoming).

Katarzyna Jazdzewska is Associate Professor at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University. She published numerous articles on Greek imperial literature and the genre of dialogue. She is currently working on the monograph Greek Dialogue in Antiquity: Post-Platonic Transformations (contracted with Oxford University Press).

Contributors are: Domenico Accorinti, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Gianfranco Agosti, Cosetta Cadau, Katerina Carvounis, Gennaro D’Ippolito, Margherita Maria Di Nino, Nestan Egetashvili, Roberta Franchi, Laura Franco, Camille Geisz, Fotini Hadjittofi, David Hernández de la Fuente, Nicole Kröll, Anna Lefteratou, Jane Lucy Lightfoot, Enrico Magnelli, Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Ewa Osek, Marta Otlewska-Jung, Sophia Papaioannou, Michael Paschalis, A. Sophie Schoess, Fabian Sieber, Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Berenice Verhelst, Mary Whitby, Maria Ypsilanti.