A study of the narrator in Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca : storytelling in late antique epic

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Contents""
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Introduction""
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Part 1. The Narrator-Authorâ#x80
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s Engagement with His Predecessors and with the Tradition of Epic Storytelling""
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Chapter 1. The First Proem: The Narratorâ#x80
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s Sources of Inspiration""
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1.1. A Shifting Source of Inspiration""
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1.2. Subject Matter and Narrative persona""
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1.3. Summary""
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Chapter 2. The Second Proem: The Emergence of the Narratorâ#x80
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s Voice""
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2.1. The Nonnian Narratorâ#x80
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s Appropriation of the Homeric Model as a Template"" ""Â#x80
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2.2. A Template for the Telling of a New Story. The Question of the Contents: The Limits of Homeric Inspiration""""â#x80
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2.3. Summary""
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Chapter 3. The Nonnian Narrator and the Muses""
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3.1. The Addressees of the Nonnian Muse Invocations""
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3.2. The Shorter Invocations: Innovations on a Well-Known Theme""
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3.3. Rhetorical Questions or Muse Invocations?""
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3.4. Summary""
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Part 2. A Narrator-Scholar with an Innovative Approach to Epic Storytelling""
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Chapter 4. The Nonnian Narratorâ#x80
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s Conception of Narrating: The Question of Sources"" ""Â#x80
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4.1. Self-Conscious Narrating: The Reference to Sources""""â#x80
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4.2. Comprehensive Narrating""
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4.3. Summary""
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Chapter 5. Being Overt: The Nonnian Narratorâ#x80
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s Opinion of His Own Narrative""
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5.1. The Nonnian Narrator in Space and Time""
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5.2. The Narratorâ#x80
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s Opinion of His Own Story: A Narrator-Commentator""
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5.3. The syncrisis of Book 25, 22â#x80
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252: An Innovative and Assertive Narratorial Intervention""
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5.4. Summary""
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Part 3. A Narrator-Storyteller in Dialogue with His Audience"" ""Â#x80
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Chapter 6. Direct Addresses to the Narratee: How to Involve the Narratee in the Story""""â#x80
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6.1. Preliminary Considerations""
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6.2. Addresses from the Narrator to the Narratee in the Dionysiaca""
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6.3. Analysis of the Corpus of Addresses""
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6.4. Summary""
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Chapter 7. Indirect Addresses: How to Influence the Narrateeâ#x80
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s Reception of the Story""
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7.1. Indirect Metaleptic Devices Aimed at the Narratee""
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7.2. Gnomic Utterances and Rhetorical Questions""
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7.3. If-not Situations in the Dionysiaca""
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Chapter 8. Comparisons and Similes"" ""Â#x80
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8.1. The Use of Comparisons and Similes in Homer, Apollonius, Quintus, and Nonnus""""â#x80
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8.2. The Nonnian Comparisons and Similes""
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8.3. Summary""
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Part 4. A Narrator-Character Becoming Part of His Own Narrative""
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Chapter 9. Apostrophes to Characters""
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9.1. Apostrophes in Homer and Apollonius""
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9.2. Addressees of the Nonnian Apostrophes""
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9.3. Summary""
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Chapter 10. The Transformation of the Narrator into a Dionysiac Reveller""
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10.1. A Narrator at the Service of Dionysus"" ""Â#x80
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10.2. The Frame of the Muse Invocations: Innovations of a Narrator-Character""