Orpheus and Orphic Hymns in the Dionysiaca

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. List of Contributors xv
6. I: Introduction
7. Revisiting Old Problems: Literature and Religion in the Dionysiaca 3
8. II: Nonnus and the Literary Past
9. Peitho in Nonnus’ Dionysiaca: the Case of Cadmus and Harmonia 21
10. Oracles in the Dionysiaca 39
11. Nonnus and the Orphic Argonautica 55
12. Orpheus and Orphic Hymns in the Dionysiaca 77
13. Ovidian Metamorphosis and Nonnian poikilon eidos 97
14. III: Nonnus and the Visual Arts
15. Contextualizing Nonnus’ Visual World 141
16. Cavero Personifications at the Service of Dionysus: the Bacchic Court 175
17. IV: Nonnus and Late Antique Paideia
18. Faith and Fidelity in Biblical Epic 195
19. Nonnus’ Mystic Vocabulary Revisited: Mystis in Dionysiaca 9.111–31 211
20. Neoplatonic Form and Content in Nonnus: Towards a New Reading of Nonnian Poetics 229
21. Rhetorical Elements in the Ampelus-episode: Dionysus’ Speech to Ampelus (Nonn. Dion. 10.196–216) 251
22. V: Nonnus and Christianity
23. Judaic Orgies and Christ’s Bacchic Deeds: Dionysiac Terminology in Nonnus’ Paraphrase of St. John’s Gospel 287
24. City and Landscape in Nonnus’ Paraphrase 12.51–69: Poetry and Exegesis 303
25. A Classical Myth in a Christian World: Nonnus’ Ariadne Episode (Dion. 47.265–475) 313
26. The Shield of Salvation: Dionysus’ Shield in Nonnus Dionysiaca 25.380–572 333
27. VI: The “School” of Nonnus
28. The End of the “Nonnian School” 375
29. Poetic Inspiration in John of Gaza: Emotional Upheaval and Ecstasy in a Neoplatonic Poet 403
30. Nonnus in Gaza 421
31. A Learned Spiritual Ladder? 435
32. VII: Nonnus and the Modern World
33. Simone Weil, Reader of the Dionysiaca 461
34. The Heros’ Quest of Dionysus as Individuation of an Age 487
35. Bibliography 505
36. List of Figures 539
37. Index of Greek Words or Phrases 541
38. Index of Passages 543
39. General Index 553