Tales of Dionysus

The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-472-03896-1
Verlag: University of Michigan Press

Buch, Englisch, 816 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 1011 g

Tales of Dionysus is the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the Dionysiaca is a formidable work. It is by far the longest poem surviving from the classical world, a massive mythological epic stretching to over 20,000 lines, written in the tradition of Homer, using Homer’s verse, Homer’s language, his narrative turns and motifs, and invoking his ancient Muses. But it is also the last ancient epic to follow a Homeric model, composed so late in fact that it stands as close in time to the Renaissance as it does to archaic Greece. Like its titular hero, Dionysus, with his fluidity of forms, names, and divine incarnations, the poem itself is continually shifting shape. Out of its formal epic frame spills a tumult of ancient literary types: tragedy, elegy, didactic, panegyric, pastoral idyll, and the novel are all parts of this gigantic enterprise, each genre coming to the fore one after the other.Tales of Dionysus brings together forty-two translators from a wide range of backgrounds, with different experiences and different potential relationships to the text of Nonnus’ poem. All work in their own styles and with their own individual approaches to the poem, to translation, and to poetic form. This variety turns Tales of Dionysus into a showcase of the multiple possibilities open to classical translation in the contemporary world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levitan, William

Lombardo, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Editors’ Preface: William Levitan and Stanley Lombardo
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Gordon Braden
- Summary of the Poem
- The Poem
- Book 1:Douglass Parker
- Book 2:Douglass Parker
- Book 2 (continued):William Levitan
- Book 3:Joseph Harrington
- Book 4:Judith Roitman
- Book 5:Rob Turner
- Book 6:Brian Walters
- Book 7:Christian Teresi
- Book 8:Frederick Ahl
- Book 9:Anne Shaw
- Book 10:Michael Shaw
- Book 11:Darwin Michener-Rutledge
- Book 12:John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco
- Book 13:Mike Lala
- Book 14:Michael B. Lippman
- Book 15:John L. Gronbeck-Tedesco
- Book 16:Rachel Hadas
- Book 17:Catherine Anderson
- Book 18:Tessa Cavagnero
- Book 19:Sheila H. Murnaghan
- Book 20:Andrew W. Barrett
- Book 21:Zachary Puckett
- Book 22:Richard Jenkyns
- Book 23:Anne Carson
- Book 24:Gordon Braden
- Book 25:Alex Dressler
- Book 26:Darwin Michener-Rutledge
- Book 27:Melina McClure
- Book 28:Denise Low and Eileen R. Tabios
- Book 29:Adrienne Atkins
- Book 30:Alison R. Parker
- Book 31:David Fredrick and Rachel Murray
- Book 32:Joseph Harrington
- Book 33:Adrienne Atkins
- Book 34:Anna Mayersohn
- Book 35:Maryrose Larkin
- Book 36:Rebekah Curry
- Book 37:Jonathan Mayhew
- Book 38:Denise Low
- Book 39:Anthony Corbeill
- Book 40:Deborah H. Roberts
- Book 41:Diane Arnson Svarlien
- Book 42:Charles-Elizabeth Boyles
- Book 43:Bethany Christiansen
- Book 44:Tessa Cavagnero
- Book 45:Anna Mayersohn
- Book 46:Melina McClure
- Book 47:Cyrus Console
- Book 48:Stanley Lombardo
- On Translating Nonnus
- Notes on Contributors
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Glossary of Personal Names

Über Autor(innen)

William Levitan is Professor of Classics Emeritus at Grand Valley State University.Stanley Lombardo is Professor Emeritus of Classics at The University of Kansas.