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Project

Nonnos’ Dionysiaka as an exponent of Late Antiquity’s “mosaic poetics”. A structural, generic and rhetorical analysis.
Code
3F013010
Duration
01 October 2010 → 30 September 2014
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
genre poetics Ancient Greek literature Late Antiquity Ancient rhetoric Epic Greek literature Late antiquity Narratology Literary studies
 
Project description

Late antique poetry can be compared to a mosaic composed of dazzling “tesserae”, obstructing an overall view. Nonnos’ Dionysiaka seems to be an excellent example. A structural, generic (Cairns’ Generic Composition) and rhetorical (based on ancient theory) analysis of single episodes from this Dionysiaka will lead to a better understanding of the “mosaic poetics” of contemporary Greek and Latin poetry.