Nonnus of Panopolis in Context III: Old Questions and New Perspectives

‎Contents
‎Preface
‎Figures
‎Abbreviations
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Introduction. Solved and Still Unsolved Issues about Nonnus and His Works (D’Ippolito)
‎Part 1. Nonnus and the Literary Tradition
	‎Chapter 1. “Breaking the Fourth Wall”: On Literariness and Metalepsis in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (Verhelst)
	‎Chapter 2. Junctures of Epic and Encomium in the Dionysiaca: The Episode of Staphylos (Miguélez-Cavero)
	‎Chapter 3. Aura’s Metamorphosis in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus: A Tale of Classical and Christian Resonances (Lefteratou)
	‎Chapter 4. I Alone Had an Untimely Love: The Ephebic ‘Epyllia’ of Dionysiaka 10–11 (Acosta-Hughes)
	‎Chapter 5. Nonnus’ Dionysiaca and the Latin Tradition: The Episode of Ampelus (Carvounis and Papaioannou)
	‎Chapter 6. Nonnus and Coptic Literature: Further Explorations (Agosti)
‎Part 2. Literary Structure and Motifs in the Dionysiaca
	‎Chapter 7. Visualizing Actaeon: The Motif of Recognition in Nonnus’ Treatment of the Metamorphosis (Schoess)
	‎Chapter 8. Structure and Meaning through Analogy: Remarks on the Use of Spatial Form in the Dionysiaca (Geisz)
	‎Chapter 9. Some Aspects of Nonnus’ Poetics: Antitypical Poetry in the Dionysiaca (Egetashvili)
	‎Chapter 10. Ἁρμονίη κόσμου and ἁρμονίη ἀνδρῶν: On the Different Concepts of Harmony in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus (Otlewska-Jung)
	‎Chapter 11. The Awakening of Ariadne in Nonnus: A Deliberate Metaphor (Hernández de la Fuente)
	‎Chapter 12. Female Characterization and Gender Reversal in Nonnus and Colluthus (Cadau)
	‎Chapter 13. Nonnus’ Europa and Cadmus: Re-configuring Masculinity in the Dionysiaca (Hadjittofi)
‎Part 3. Exegesis through Paraphrase
	‎Chapter 14. Ἀληθείῃ καὶ πνεύματι (Par. 4.114): Some Doctrinal Issues in Nonnus’ Paraphrase and Their Theological Implications (Franchi)
	‎Chapter 15. Nonnus and the Book (Lightfoot)
	‎Chapter 16. Shepherding the Past: Nonnus’ Parable of the Good Shepherd between Pagan Models and Christian Exegesis (Di Nino and Ypsilanti)
	‎Chapter 17. Amplification in Juvencus’ Evangeliorum Libri iv and in Nonnus’ Μεταβολὴ τοῦ κατὰ Ιωάννην ἁγίου εὐαγγελίου (Paschalis)
	‎Chapter 18. Presentation of Biblical Figures in Poetic Paraphrase: John the Baptist and Pontius Pilate in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel (Franco and Ypsilanti)
‎Part 4. Nonnus and Late Antique Culture
	‎Chapter 19. Sacrificing a Serpent: Nonnus’ Dionysiaca 2.671–679 and the Orphic Lithica 736–744 (Osek)
	‎Chapter 20. The Mystic Reception of Theocritus in Late Antiquity (Spanoudakis)
	‎Chapter 21. Sites and Cities in Late Antique Literature: Athens, Berytus, and Cultural Self-Identification in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis (Kröll)
‎Part 5. Reception of Nonnus
	‎Chapter 22. An Unknown “Nonnian” Poet: John of Memphis (Magnelli)
	‎Chapter 23. Nonnus, Christodorus, and the Epigrams of George of Pisidia (Whitby)
	‎Chapter 24. Photius, the Suda, and Eustathius: Eloquent Silences and Omissions in the Reception of Nonnus’ Work in Byzantine Literature (Accorinti)
	‎Chapter 25. Boom Years of Nonnian Studies: On the Reception of Nonnus in Germany (1880–1976) (Sieber)
‎Index of Passages
‎General Index