Nonnus of Panopolis in Context (Poetry a
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Spanoudakis, Konstantinos
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Article
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2014
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DE GRUYTER
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English
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Nonnus of Panopolis (fifth century CE) composed two poems once thought to be incompatible: the *Dionysiaca*, a mythological long epic with a marked interest in astrology, the occult, the paradox and not least the beauty of the female body, and a pious and sublime *Paraphrase of the Gospel of St John