Nonnus' Paraphrase Between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology : Rewriting the Fourth Gospel in the Fifth Century
Nonnus' Paraphrase Between Poetry, Rhetoric and Theology : Rewriting the Fourth Gospel in the Fifth Century
by Maria Ypsilanti and Laura Franco
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9004373411 | 330 Pages | True PDF | 2.14 MB
by Maria Ypsilanti and Laura Franco
English | 2020 | ISBN: 9004373411 | 330 Pages | True PDF | 2.14 MB
This book offers an analysis of the paraphrastic techniques which Nonnus employs for rendering St. Johns Gospel in Homerising verse. The study examines the poems dependence on ancient rhetorical theory, its aesthetics and its dialogue with theology
Maria Ypsilanti, University of Cyprus, and Laura Franco, Royal Holloway, University of London, with the collaboration of Filip Doroszewski and Claudia Greco