A paraître prochainement :
Konstantinos Spanoudakis (ed.), Nonnus of Panopolis in Context. Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a section on Nonnus and the Modern World (Trends in Classics, Supplementary Volume 24),
Berlin – Boston 2014, 129 € (ISBN 978-3-11-033937-6)
Contents
Preface v Abbreviations xiii List of Contributors xv
I: Introduction
Pierre Chuvin : Revisiting Old Problems: Literature and Religion in the Dionysiaca 3
II: Nonnus and the Literary Past
Katerina Carvounis : Peitho in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca: the Case of Cadmus and Harmonia 21
Jane Lightfoot : Oracles in the Dionysiaca 39
Enrico Livrea : Nonnus and the Orphic Argonautica 55
Marta Otlewska-Jung : Orpheus and Orphic Hymns in the Dionysiaca 77
Michael Paschalis : Ovidian Metamorphosis and Nonnian poikilon eidos 97
Maria Ypsilanti : Image-Making and the Art of Paraphrasing: Aspects of Darkness and Light in the Metabole 123
III: Nonnus and the Visual Arts
Gianfranco Agosti : Contextualizing Nonnus’ Visual World 141
Laura Miguιlez Cavero : Personifications at the Service of Dionysus: the Bacchic Court 175
IV: Nonnus and Late Antique Paideia
Andrew Faulkner : Faith and Fidelity in Biblical Epic. The Methaphrasis Psalmorum, Nonnus, and the Theory of Translation 195
Rosa Garcνa-Gasco : Nonnus’ Mystic Vocabulary Revisited: Mystis in Dionysiaca 9.111–31 211
David Hernαndez de la Fuente : Neoplatonic Form and Content in Nonnus: Towards a New Reading of Nonnian Poetics 229
Nicole Krφll : Rhetorical Elements in the Ampelus-episode: Dionysus’ Speech to Ampelus (Nonn. Dion. 10.196–216) 251
Enrico Magnelli : Appositives in Nonnus’ Hexameter 265
V: Nonnus and Christianity
Filip Doroszewski : Judaic Orgies and Christ’s Bacchic Deeds: Dionysiac Terminology in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel 287
Claudia Greco : City and Landscape in Nonnus’ Paraphrase 12.51–69: Poetry and Exegesis 303
Robert Shorrock : A Classical Myth in a Christian World: Nonnus’ Ariadne Episode (Dion. 47.265–475) 313
Konstantinos Spanoudakis : The Shield of Salvation: Dionysus’ Shield in Nonnus
Dionysiaca 25.380–572 333
VI: The “School” of Nonnus
Claudio De Stefani : The End of the “Nonnian School” 375
Daria Gigli Piccardi : Poetic Inspiration in John of Gaza: Emotional Upheaval and Ecstasy in a Neoplatonic Poet 403
Delphine Lauritzen : Nonnus in Gaza. The Expansion of Modern Poetry from Egypt to Palestine in the Early Sixth Century CE 421
Mary Whitby : A Learned Spiritual Ladder? Towards an Interpretation of George of Pisidia’s Hexameter Poem On Human Life 435
VII: Nonnus and the Modern World
Domenico Accorinti : Simone Weil, Reader of the Dionysiaca 461
Nina Aringer : The Heros’ Quest of Dionysus as Individuation of an Age. Approaching the Dionysiaca under the Aspect of Jungian Archetypes and the Monomyth of Joseph Campbell 487
Bibliography 505 List of Figures 539
Index of Greek Words or Phrases 541 Index of Passages 543 General Index 553