In Nonnus Dionysiaca, Aura was Greek goddess of breezes and cool air, daughter of Lelantos and Periboia.

Other obvious examples are Nonnus ' Dionysiaca, Tulsidas ' Sri Ramacharit Manas.

** Dionysiaca by Nonnus

* Phoenix, ally of Dionysus in the Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis

Continuity of the site made sacred by the presence of Cecrops is inherent in the reference in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca to " Erechtheion lamp as " the lamp of Cecrops ".

The parentage of Pan is unclear ; in some myths he is the son of Zeus, though generally he is the son of Hermes or Dionysus, with whom his mother is said to be a nymph, sometimes Dryope or, in Nonnus, Dionysiaca ( 14. 92 ), Penelope of Mantineia in Arcadia.

Pan could be multiplied into a swarm of Pans, and even be given individual names, as in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca, where the god Pan had twelve sons that helped Dionysus in his war against the Indians.

In Nonnus ' Dionysiaca ( 11. 113 ), at Hera's instigation Atë persuades the boy Ampelus whom Dionysus passionately loves to impress Dionysus by riding on a bull from which Ampelus subsequently falls and breaks his neck.

Nonnus ( Dionysiaca 18. 23 – 264 ) gives the most elaborated description of her.

* Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3. 211 ; 6. 367 ( ca.

Nonnus in his Dionysiaca mentions a set of four Horae: Eiar, Theros, Cheimon and Phthinoporon, the Greek words for spring, summer, winter and autumn respectively.

Hesiod, Theogony ; Nonnus, Dionysiaca ).

The Dionysiaca of Nonnus, learned and accurate in spite of its late date, elaborates and gives all nine names of the Kuretes.

Nonnus in his Dionysiaca has Hera say ( 8. 158f ):

According to a passage in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca ( ii. 108 ) she was changed into a pine tree by the gods in order to escape him.

The River Asterion in Argos is mentioned in the Dionysiaca ( 47. 493 ) of Nonnus, who couples the reference with a rite in which young men dedicate locks of their hair.

* A nymph of a spring who incessantly mingles her waters with those of the river god Cydnus, who in one passage of Nonnus ' Dionysiaca is said to be her father, and in another her consort.

Their son is Pothos ( Nonnus, Dionysiaca ).

W. H. D. Rouse in 1940 wrote an ironic end note to Book 40 of his edition of Nonnus ' Dionysiaca about a very syncretistic hymn sung by Dionysus to Tyrian Heracles, that is, to Ba ‘ al Melqart whom Dionysus identifies with Belus on the Euphrates ( who should be Marduk!

Nonnus ' principal work is the Dionysiaca, an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from antiquity at 20, 426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.

* Online text: Nonnus, Dionysiaca bks 1-14 translated by W. H. D. Rouse

When in Nonnus ' fourth-or fifth-century CE Dionysiaca the vast monster Typhon boasts that he will bathe in " starry Eridanus ", it is hyperbole, for the constellation Eridanus, represented as a river, was one of the 48 constellations listed by the second-century astronomer Ptolemy ; it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

Nonnus in his Dionysiaca ( 18. 5f ) brings in King Staphylus of Assyria and his son Botrys who entertain Dionysus, characters unknown elsewhere.

The river was regarded as a god by the ancient Greeks, as were most mountains and streams ; the poet Nonnus in the Dionysiaca ( section 26, line 350 ) makes the Hydaspes a titan-descended god, the son of the sea-god Thaumas and the cloud-goddess Elektra.

Ossetic bættən " bind ", bast " bound ") and Iranian * arna-" offspring ", equating it with the δουλόσποροι " slave Sporoi " mentioned by Nonnus and Cosmas, where Sporoi is the people Procopius mentions as the ancestors of the Slavs.

Still another variant of the narrative is found in Callimachus and the 5th century AD Greek writer Nonnus.

Nonnus does not present the conception as virginal ; rather, the editor's notes say that Zeus swallowed Zagreus ' heart, and visited the mortal woman Semele, whom he seduced and made pregnant.

In an etiology told by Nonnus, the vine is personified as a beautiful satyr youth, who was loved by Dionysus, and whose death was foreseen by the god.

Cyrene was a fierce huntress, called by Nonnus a " deer-chasing second Artemis, the girl lionkiller.

Further classical references to the Cercopes can be found in Diodorus Siculus 4. 31. 7 ; Nonnus, in Mythographi Graeci, ed.

Ophion is mentioned again by Nonnus ( 12. 43 ):

The Dionysiaca appears to be incomplete, and some scholars believe that a 49th book was being planned when Nonnus stopped work on the poem, although others point out that the number of books in the Dionysiaca is the same as the 48 books of the Iliad and Odyssey combined.

Joseph Eddy Fontenrose suggests that for Nonnus Campe is a Greek refiguring of Tiamat and that " she is Echidna under another name, as Nonnos indicates, calling her Echidnaean Enyo, identifying her snaky legs with Echidna's ", and " a female counterpart of his Typhon ".

Ovid in his Ibis mentions that Makelo, like the other Telchines, was killed with a thunderbolt ; according to Callimachus and Nonnus, however, Makelo was the only one to be spared.

* R. Kohler, Über die Dionysiaka des Nonnus ( 1853 ), a short and connected analysis of the poem, with a comparison of the earlier and later myths

* I. Negrisoli, Studio critico ... Nonnus Panopolita, with short bibliography ( 1903 ).

It is especially remarkable that Nonnus was so exacting with meter because the quantitative meter of classical poetry was giving way in Nonnus ' time to stressed meter.

As with many other late classical poets, newer scholarship has avoided the value-laden judgments of 19th-century scholars and attempted to reassess and rehabilitate Nonnus ' works.

Recently, however, scholars have focused more positively on Nonnus ' use of mythology within the poem as a way of talking about contemporary events, as a way of playing with generic conventions, and as a way of engaging with predecessors intertextually, leading to an encouraging reassessment of his poetic and narrative style.

She was a celebrated dancer and courtesan, who, in the full flower of her beauty and guilty sovereignty over the youth of Antioch, was suddenly converted by the influence of the holy bishop Saint Nonnus, whom she had heard preaching in front of a church which she was passing with her attendants and admirers.

The gods ( Zeus, Poseidon or Apollo ) eventually killed them because they began to use magic for malignant purposes ; particularly, they produced a mixture of Stygian water and sulfur, which killed animals and plants ( according to Nonnus, they did so as a revenge for being driven out of Rhodes by the Heliadae ).

Nonnus has Cadmus identify Belus as " the Libyan Zeus " and refer to the " new voice of Zeus Asbystes ", meaning the oracle of Zeus Ammon at Asbystes.

Pausanias seems to know nothing of supposed connection between Belus son of Libya and Zeus Ammon that Nonnus will later put forth as presented just above.

The Charites are usually said to be the daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, but Pasithea's parentage is given ( by the poet Nonnus ) as Hera and Dionysus.