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Nonnus, the Greek poet, was born at Panopolis at the end of the 4th century.
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Nonnus and Greek
In Nonnus Dionysiaca, Aura was Greek goddess of breezes and cool air, daughter of Lelantos and Periboia.
Still another variant of the narrative is found in Callimachus and the 5th century AD Greek writer Nonnus.
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 ".
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.
Nonnus of Panopolis (; Greek ) was a Greek epic poet.
The Wechel series was continued by Hieronymus Commelinus ( Jerome Commelin ) of Heidelberg, for whom Sylburg edited Clement of Alexandria, Justin Martyr, the Etymologicum magnum, the Scriptores de re rustica, the Greek gnomic poets, Xenophon, Nonnus and other works.
Greek poets of the late antique period included Antoninus Liberalis, Quintus Smyrnaeus, Nonnus, Romanus the Melodist and Paul the Silentiary.
These metrical restraints encouraged the creation of new compounds, adjectives, and coined words, and Nonnus ' work has some of the greatest variety of coinages in any Greek poem.
Nonnus and poet
The 4th or 5th century poet Nonnus describes the Athenian celebrations given to the first Dionysus Zagreus son of Persephone, the second Dionysus Bromios son of Semele, and the third Dionysus Iacchus:
The poet Nonnus of Panopolis mentions the resurrection of the boy by Apollo.
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.
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.
Nonnus and was
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.
According to Nonnus, Ampelos was gored to death by a wild bull after he mocked the goddess Selene, a scene described as follows:
Cyrene was a fierce huntress, called by Nonnus a " deer-chasing second Artemis, the girl lionkiller.
According to a passage in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca ( ii. 108 ) she was changed into a pine tree by the gods in order to escape him.
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.
Only four lines of the Bassarica ( also on the subject of Dionysus ) have been preserved in a commentary by Stephanus of Byzantium, and according to an epigram in the Palatine Anthology ( 9. 198 ), Nonnus was the author of a work titled the Battle of the Giants.
They have shown that Nonnus was as learned in Christian theology as in pagan myth.
Nonnus, who had been chosen bishop on Ibas ' deposition, having been legitimately ordained, was allowed to retain his episcopal rank, and on Ibas's death, October 28, 457, quietly succeeded him as metropolitan.
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.
Although it is not known it is believed that Tryphiodorus lived to around the middle of the 5th century and the reason for this was because he imitated Nonnus who died around the end of the 4th century and was believed to be imitated by Colluthus.
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.
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.
The grandest such version was his triumphant return from " India ", which influenced symbolic conceptions of the Roman triumph and was narrated in rapturous detail in Nonnus ' Dionysiaca.
Nonnus and at
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 ' 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.
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.
Nonnus and Panopolis
* Phoenix, ally of Dionysus in the Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis
nl: Nonnus van Panopolis
: PG 43: Epiphanius, Nonnus of Panopolis
Nonnus and end
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 and .
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.
Other obvious examples are Nonnus ' Dionysiaca, Tulsidas ' Sri Ramacharit Manas.
In Nonnus ' Dionysiaca, 2. 356, when Typhon prepares to battle with Zeus:
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.
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.
Nonnus ( Dionysiaca 18. 23 – 264 ) gives the most elaborated description of her.
* Nonnus, Dionysiaca 3. 211 ; 6. 367 ( ca.
Further classical references to the Cercopes can be found in Diodorus Siculus 4. 31. 7 ; Nonnus, in Mythographi Graeci, ed.
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 ):
Ophion is mentioned again by Nonnus ( 12. 43 ):
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