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Nonnus once vied with Homer for popularity; today his "Dionysiaca languishes in obscurity. "The Challenge of Epic offers a literary critical rehabilitation of Nonnus' fifth-century AD poem. It argues that modern neglect stems from a failure to appreciate the central position of allusion in late-antique poetry.Attention first focuses on intertextual allusion. It is argued that the poet draws on a plethora of allusions to the cycle of Greek mythology in order to imbue his specific narrative with a universal significance. Focus then shifts to metapoetic allusion: the way in which Nonnus alludes self-consciously to the process of writing, and develops parallels between himself and his subject, Dionysus.Through an appreciation of Nonnus' alllusive strategies, the modern reader can again engage with the mind-bending challenge of the "Dionysiaca.

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• Full title: The Challenge of Epic: Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus
• Author: Robert Shorrock
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9789004117952
• ISBN: 9004117954
• ID: 13312202
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Weight: 606 g
• Dimensions: 249 × 161 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: December 2000

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