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Nonnus of Panopolis (Greek: Νόννος ὁ Πανοπολίτης, Nónnos ho Panopolítēs, fl. 5th century CE) was the most notable Greek epic poet of the Imperial Roman era. He was a native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid and probably lived in the 5th century CE.
Nonnus was the most notable Greek epic poet of the Roman period. His chief work is the Dionysiaca, a hexameter poem in 48 books; its main subject, submerged in a chaos of by-episodes, is the expedition of the god Dionysus to India.
NONNUS, DIONYSIACA 1. NONNUS OF PANOPOLIS was a Greek poet who flourished in Egypt in the C5th A.D. He was the author of the last of the great epic poems of antiquity, the Dionysiaca in 48 books. The work relates the story of Dionysos, centred around his expedition against the Indians.
The Dionysiaca / ˌdaɪ.ə.nɪˈzaɪ.ə.kə / ( Greek: Διονυσιακά, Dionysiaká) is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus.
Feb 27, 2019 · Nonnus of Panopolis (approximately 400–460/470 CE) is the undisputed protagonist of the flourishing of Greek poetry in Late Antiquity. He composed the Dionysiaca, the longest extant Greek epic poem on the life of Dionysus, his war and triumph over the Indians, his progress from the Near East to Thebes, and his eventual apotheosis (more than ...
The 5th-century ce Greek poet Nonnus of Panopolis (the modern Akhmim, Upper-Egypt) is known as the author of two poems. The Dionysiaca is the longest extant ancient Greek poem, a mythological epic (48 books, 21,286 lines) about the young god Dionysus.
May 24, 2024 · the main surviving exponent of an elaborate, metrically very strict style of Greek epic poetry that evolved in the Imperial period. His huge Dionysiaca is in 48 books, the sum of the books of the Iliad and Odyssey; Nonnus' stated intention is to rival Homer, and to surpass him in the dignity of his divine, not human, subject (25. 253–63).
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