Nonnus

Nonnus

▪ Greek poet
flourished 5th century AD, b. Panopolis, Egypt

      the most notable Greek epic poet of the Roman period.

      His chief work is the Dionysiaca, a hexameter poem in 48 books; its main subject, submerged in a chaos of by-episodes, is the expedition of the god Dionysus to India. Nonnus' fertile inventiveness and felicitous descriptive fantasy, which are well served by a unique command of the language and his vast literary knowledge, made him the often-imitated leader of the last Greek epic school. His style, with its ever-recurring, often daring metaphors and unremittingly bombastic tone, appealed to the taste of the time. He is also the author of a poetic paraphrase of the Gospel According to John (John, Gospel According to), composed in the metre of epic, the dactylic hexameter. Although this work has led some scholars to conclude that Nonnus converted to Christianity, there is in fact no secure information on his life.

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