284:, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return. The poem is to be dated to the 5th century. It used to be considered of poor literary quality, but a mass of recent writing (most notably in the Budé edition and commentary on the poem in 18 volumes) has demonstrated that it shows consummate literary skill, even if its distinctly baroque extravagance is an acquired taste for a modern reader. His versification invites attention: writing in hexameters he uses a higher proportion of dactyls and less elision than earlier poets; this plus his subtle use of alliteration and assonance gives his verse a unique musicality.
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Bilingual Greek-English edition (initial introduction, some explanatory notes): W. H. D. Rouse (1940), Nonnos, Dionysiaca, With an
English Translation by W. H. D. Rouse, Mythological Introduction and Notes by H. J. Rose, Notes on Text Criticism by L. R. Lind, 3 vols., Loeb Classical Library,
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Vian, Francis. '"MĂąrtus" chez Nonnos de
Panopolis. Ătude de sĂ©mantique et de chronologie.' REG 110, 1997, 143-60. Reprinted in: L'ĂpopĂ©e posthomĂ©rique. Recueil d'Ă©tudes. Ed. Domenico Accorinti. Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 2005 (Hellenica 17),
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Piccardi (1998), âNonno e lâEgittoâ, Prometheus 24, 61-82 and 161-81. Enrico Livrea has proposed the identification of the poet with the Syrian bishop of Edessa of the same
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The last complete edition of the Greek text: Nonni
Panopolitani Paraphrasis S. Evangelii Joannei edidit Augustinus Scheindler, accedit S. Evangelii textus et index verborum, Lipsiae in aedibus Teubneri
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Matzner, Sebastian. 2008. "Christianizing the EpicâEpicizing
Christianity. Nonnus. Paraphrasis and the Old-Saxon Heliand in a Comparative Perspective: A study in the Poetics of Acculturation."
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English: Sherry, L.F., The Hexameter Paraphrase of St. John Attributed to Nonnus of Panopolis: Prolegomenon and Translation (Ph.D. dissertation; Columbia University, 1991).
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English: Prost, Mark Anthony. Nonnos of Panopolis, The Paraphrase of the Gospel of John. Translated from the Greek by M.A.P. Ventura, CA: The Writing Shop Press, 2006
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Bilingual Greek-French edition (with introduction to the individual books and notes): F. Vian (general ed.) (1976â2006), Nonnos de
Panopolis, Les Dionysiaques, 19 volumes, Paris
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Bilingual Greek-Italian edition (with introductions and notes): D. Gigli
Piccardi (general ed.) (2003â4), Nonno di Panopoli, Le Dionisiache, BUR, Milano
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Spanoudakis, Konstantinos. 2007. "Icarius Jesus Christ? Dionysiac
Passion and Biblical Narrative in Nonnusâ Icarius Episode (Dion. 47, 1â264)."
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A team of (mainly Italian) scholars are now re-editing the text, book by book, with ample introductions and notes. Published so far:
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Studia Nonniana Interretica: News from the world of Nonnian scholarship and an up-to-date bibliography of Polish studies on Nonnus
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Nonno di Panopoli, Le Dionisiache, a cura di D. del Corno, traduzione di M. Maletta, note de F. Tissoni, 2 vols, Milano 1997.
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Nonnus of Panopolis in Context: Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity with a Section on Nonnus and the Modern World.
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A complete and updated bibliography of Nonnus scholarship may be found at Hellenistic Bibliography's page at Google Sites.
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Whitby, Mary. 2007. "The Bible Hellenised: Nonnusâ Paraphrase of St John's Gospel and âEudociaâsâ Homeric Centos." In
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C. De Stefani (2002), Nonno di Panopoli: Parafrasi del Vangelo di S. Giovanni, Canto I, Bologna
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A Study of the Narrator in Nonnus of Panopolisâ Dionysiaca. Storytelling in Late Antique Epic.
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