Nonnus of Panopolis : Paraphrasis of the Gospel of John XI

Konstantinos (Assistant Professor of Classics at the Department of Philology Spanoudakis

ISBN 10: 0198714904 / ISBN 13: 9780198714903

Edité par Oxford University Press Nov 2014, 2014

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Neuware - This book is a critical edition of chapter XI (the Resurrection of Lazarus) of the mid-fifth century Paraphrasis of the Gospel of John by Nonnus of Panopolis.

N° de réf. du vendeur 9780198714903

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Nonnus of Panopolis : Paraphrasis of the Gospel of John XI
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Nov 2014
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0198714904
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780198714903
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 242 L x 165 H x 31 P (en millimètres) 242 millimètres de largeur par 165 millimètres de hauteur par 31 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 778 grammes

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Synopsis

This ground-breaking work is a critical edition of chapter XI (The Resurrection of Lazarus) of Nonnus of Panopolis' Paraphrasis of the Gospel of St John, written in the mid-fifth century in elegant hexameters. Made available for the first time in Anglophone literature, the volume consists of an introduction discussing cultural (theological and philosophical affiliations, dialogue with contemporary art), literary (character-sketching, narrative, interaction with the Dionysiaca), and technical (paraphrastic technique, transmission, metre) aspects and places the work in its immediate and broader context. The Introduction includes an edition of chapter XI from the so-called Athous paraphrase of Nonnus' Paraphrasis.

An exhaustive line-by-line commentary covers a wide range of issues arising from Nonnus' spiritualizing rendition. Konstantinos Spanoudakis identifies literary models and intertextual links with earlier traditions: epic (mainly Homer, Apollonius Rhodius, Oppian), mystic (Orphic literature, Chaldean Oracles), and philosophical (Neoplatonists, Gnostics). Dr Spanoudakis illustrates Nonnus' interaction with early Christian poetry and literature, his debt to Cyril of Alexandria's Commentary on the Gospel of John, his familiarity with Syriac exegesis (John Chrysostom and Theodore of Mopsuestia), and the homiletic and apocryphal tradition on Lazarus. The book features a short Appendix discussing a curse against the Jews embedded as an interpolated verse in ms V.

À propos de l?auteur

Konstantinos Spanoudakis is Assistant Professor of Classics at the Department of Philology, University of Crete. He published an edition of the poetical and grammatical fragments of the Hellenistic poet Philitas of Cos (Brill, 2002) and co-edited with F. Manakidou Alexandrine Muse: Tradition and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (Athens, 2008). He is also the editor of Nonnus of Panopolis in Context: Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity (DeGruyter, 2014).