Nonnus of Panopolis in Context II: Poetry, Religion, and Society - Proceedings of the International Conference on Nonnus of Panopolis

Informationen zum Autor Herbert Bannert, Professor of Classics, University of Vienna, Austria, has published monographs and many articles on Homer and Greek epic poetry, on Greek tragedy, including a German translation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex , and on Ancient Historiography. Nicole Kröll, PhD (2014), is the author of a monograph on the Ampelus-episode in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis (De Gruyter, 2016). She has also published articles on late antique poetry, including a co-authored contribution to Brill's Companion to Nonnus of Panopolis . Contributors are: Domenico Accorinti, Katerina Carvounis, Pierre Chuvin, Claudio De Stefani, Filip Doroszewski, Nestan Egetashvili, Joshua Fincher, Roberta Franchi, Laura Franco, Camille Geisz, Daria Gigli Piccardi, David Hernández de la Fuente, Jane L. Lightfoot, Laura Miguélez Cavero, Michael Paschalis, Robert Shorrock, Fabian Sieber, Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Berenice Verhelst, Mary Whitby, Maria Ypsilanti, Michael Zach, Simon Zuenelli. Klappentext Nonnus of Panopolis has an outstanding position in ancient literature being at the same time a pagan and a Christian author. The book covers literary and cultural aspects of Nonnus' poetry, the Dionysiaca and the Paraphrasis of the Gospel of St. John .

Product details

• Authors: Herbert Bannert, Nicole Kroell
• Assisted by: Herbert Bannert (Editor), Nicole Kröll (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2017
• EAN: 9789004341197
• ISBN: 978-90-0-434119-7
• No. of pages: 436
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 50 mm
• Series: Print on demand; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies