There is no poet who has been so contradictorily judged as Nonnus. Any infelicities that remain are, of course, my own. Translations from the Greek have been variously adopted and adapted from the Loeb Classical Library. Quotations from the Dionysiaca are taken from the Bude edition where it is available, and otherwise from the 1959 edition of Keydell. Finally, I should like to thank my colleagues and pupils at Eton College for providing a humane and stimulating environment in which to bring 77ze Challenge qf Epic to its conclusion. My editors at Brill, Marcella Mulder and Gera van Bedaf, also deserve my appreciation for their expertise and considerable patience. Three years down the line I can now thank Vedia Izzet for all that she has done to me. Made to the stimulating atmosphere of Classics Graduate Commonroom it is to be thanked both for its company and for the cheerful forbearance with which it greeted a long line of research papers on Nonnus' Dionysiaca. Throughout my time as a graduate in Cambridge I was supported by a British Academy Major State Studentship I benefited additionally from a number of grants and awards from the Faculty of Classics and Christ's College, Cambridge. The task of proof-reading was valiantly undertaken by Theo Pike. Thanks must also go to Richard Hunter for reading an early version of Chapter 2 and to J ason König who read the complete manuscript in its two separate 'incarnations', as thesis and book. Their detailed comments and criticisms have given me pause for thought over a number of issues. examiners, Philip Hardie and Byron Harries, were both generous in sharing their insights into matters Nonnian. I have benefited greatly, and continue to benefit, from his example and from his immense learning in the spheres of both Latin and Greek. Over the space of five years he played a wise and infinitely patient Homer to my own upstart Nonnus. At Cambridge I was fortunate to be supervised by Neil Hopkinson for both my M. In this pursuit T ony Woodman, Michael Stokes and John Moles all gave freely of their time. It was as an undergraduate in the Department of Classics at the University of Durharn that I was first taught to think hard about the Classical world. At Clitheroe Royal Grammar School my interest in Greek mythology was encouraged by Dudley Green whilst Keith Harwood sacrificed many lunch-hours to te ach me Greek. I am grateful to the several institutions and numerous teachers who nurtured my early interest in the Classical world. It is to them with thanks and love that I dedicate this book. My greatest debt is to my parents, Peter and Elizabeth Shorrock, for their unwavering support, their encouragement and their interest over the last twenty-seven years. The debts that I have incurred in the writing of this book stretch back to long before my first fateful encounter with Nonnus in the Classical Faculty Library, Cambridge in November 1994. thesis: 'Method and Madness in the Dionysaca of Nonnus'. This monograph represents a slightly revised version of my 1999 Cambridge Ph.D. Chapter One: The Challenge of EpicĬhapter Two: The Cyde of Dionysus. Authorization to photocopy items flr internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fies are paid direetry to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910 Danvers MA 01923, USA.
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