Brill’s Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis

Domenico Accorinti, Ph.D. (1992), Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, is an independent researcher and teaches Classics at the Gymnasium Galilei, Pisa. He has published on late Greek poetry, mythology, and the history of religions, including Raffaele Pettazzoni and Herbert Jennings Rose, Correspondence 1927–1958, Brill (2014).Contributors are: Domenico Accorinti, Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Gianfranco Agosti, Herbert Bannert, Alberto Bernabé, Pierre Chuvin, Claudio De Stefani, Jitse H.F. Dijkstra, Gennaro D’Ippolito, Filip Doroszewski, Riemer A. Faber, Roberta Franchi, Rosa García-Gasco, Camille Geisz, Daria Gigli Piccardi, Fotini Hadjittofi, David Hernández de la Fuente, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Troels Myrup Kristensen, Nicole Kröll, Anna Maria Lasek, Jane L. Lightfoot, Calum Alasdair Maciver, Enrico Magnelli, Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Peter van Minnen, Ronald F. Newbold, Robert Shorrock, Fabian Sieber, Christos Simelidis, Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Francesco Tissoni, Berenice Verhelst, and Mary Whitby.

''In scope, scale and breath, Accorinti and his team deserve plaudits: the project has more than achieved its aim of providing a wide-ranging reference work for scholars of Nonnus and Late Antiquity. The expertise of the collaborators is apparent at every turn of the page; so too is the enthusiasm. Well presented with very few spelling or typographical errors, it will become an undoubtedly useful handbook for all future readers who come to ask the poet their questions.'' Emma Greensmith, Plekos 2018.20 "Nonnos est loin encore d’avoir livre tous ses secrets:grâce à ce Companion, le lecteur s’engagera dans cette voie bien accompagné."Delphine Lauritzen in L’Antiquité Classique 87 (2018).

• AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsList of IllustrationsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Becoming A ClassicDomenico AccorintiPart 1 - Author, Context, and Religion1 The Poet from Panopolis: An Obscure Biography and a Controversial FigureDomenico Accorinti2 Nonnus’ PanopolisPeter van Minnen3 The Religious Background of NonnusJitse H.F. DijkstraPart 2 – The Dionysiaca4 Nonnus and Dionysiac-Orphic ReligionAlberto Bernabe and Rosa Garcia-Gasco5 The Poet of Dionysus: Birth of the Last among the Gods Pierre Chuvin6 Major Themes and Motifs in the DionysiacaFotini Hadjittofi7 Minor Characters in the DionysiacaBerenice Verhelst 8 Narrative and Digression in the DionysiacaCamille Geisz9 The Psychology in the DionysiacaRonald F. NewboldPart 3 – The Paraphrase of St John’s Gospel10 Nonnus and Biblical EpicMary Whitby11 Approaching the ‘Spiritual Gospel’: Nonnus as Interpreter of John Roberta Franchi12 Nonnus’ Paraphrastic Technique: A Case Study of Self-Recognition in John 9Scott Fitzgerald Johnson13 Nonnus and Christian LiteratureChristos Simelidis14 Nonnus’ ChristologyFabian Sieber15 The Mystery Terminology in Nonnus’ ParaphraseFilip DoroszewskiPart 4 - Metre, Style, Poetry, and Visual Arts16 The Nonnian HexameterEnrico Magnelli17 Nonnus’ Conventional Formulaic StyleGennaro D’Ippolito18 Nonnus and the Play of GenresAnna Maria Lasek19 Nonnus’ PoeticsDaria Gigli Piccardi20 Nonnus and the Poetry of Ekphrasis in the DionysiacaRiemer A. Faber21 Nonnus and the Art of Late AntiquityTroels Myrup KristensenPart 5 - Nonnus and the Classical Tradition22 Nonnus and the Homeric PoemsHerbert Bannert and Nicole Kroll23 Composing the Masters: An Essay on Nonnus and Hellenistic PoetryBenjamin Acosta-Hughes24 Nonnus and Imperial Greek PoetryCalum Alasdair Maciver25 Nonnus and the NovelLaura Miguelez-CaveroPart 6 - An Interpretation of Nonnus’ Work26 Christian Themes in the DionysiacaRobert Shorrock27 Pagan Themes in the ParaphraseKonstantinos Spanoudakis28 Nonnus and Prophecy: Between ‘Pagan’ and ‘Christian’ Voices Jane L. Lightfoot29 Nonnus and Late Antique SocietyGianfranco AgostiPart 7 - The Transmission and Reception of Nonnus’ Poems30 Brief Notes on the Manuscript Tradition of Nonnus’ WorksClaudio De Stefani31 The Reception of Nonnus in Late Antiquity, Byzantine, and Renaissance LiteratureFrancesco Tissoni32 The Influence of Nonnus on Baroque and Modern LiteratureDavid Hernandez de la FuenteBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex of Principal Nonnian Passages