Nonnus of Panopolis in Context. Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity
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UNIVERSITY OF CRETE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOLOGY   International Conference Nonnus of Panopolis in Context Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity Rethymno - May 13-15, 2011 Students' Cultural Center 'Xenia' 16 Sofokli Venizelou Street, Rethymno  Double-faced hermaic stele depicting Dionysus and Ariadne, Eleutherna (Crete), Sector I, 2nd cent. AD. The Department of Philology of the University of Crete organises in Rethymno, Crete, 13-15 May 2011, the first international conference on the late antique poet Nonnus of Panopolis. The nine sessions of the conference cover various aspects of Nonnus' poetry, poetic technique, educational, literary and cultural background, ambience and afterlife. The twenty two speakers, mainly from across Europe, include some well established scholars, but mostly scholars in their mid-forties and a few promising students of a younger generation. The conference will pay equal attention to the Dionysiaca and the Paraphrasis of the Gospel of St John. New readings of key-passages in both poems will be presented, novel approaches to Nonnus' relationship with earlier and contemporary literature, new insights into Nonnus' visual world, his reception by later poets, even modern authors, and an attempt to redefine the notion of the Nonnian 'School'. The conference rather than seeing Nonnus as a 'follower' or 'imitator' explores what he has to say as an erudite late antique poet who absorbs and transforms a long and varied literary and philosophical past. The Proceedings will be published as a Supplement to the series 'Trends in Classics' directed by Professors Antonios Rengakos (Thessaloniki) and Franco Montanari (Venice) with DeGruyter. For further enquiries please contact Konstantinos Spanoudakis
P R O G R A M
Friday 13 May 2011, 17:30-20:30 Registration Welcome Speeches Opening Speech Enrico Livrea (Florence) Nonnus and the Orphic Argonautica 19:00-19:30 Break Session 1: Nonnus and Visual Arts Michael Paschalis, Chair Gianfranco Agosti (Udine) Nonnus' Visual World Laura Miguélez-Cavero (Salamanca) Personifications and their Impact in the Dionysiaca Saturday 14 May, 10:00-13:30 Session 2: Nonnus and the Literary Past (part 1) Konstantinos Spanoudakis, Chair Jane Lightfoot (Oxford) Nonnus and the Oracles Hélène Frangoulis (Toulouse) Nonnus and Homeric Similes: the Image of Lions in the Dionysiaca Marta Otlewska (Berlin) The Dionysiaca and the Orphic Hymns 11:30-12:00 Break Session 2: Nonnus and the Literary Past (part 2) Tasos Nikolaidis, Chair Maria Ypsilanti (Nicosia) The Paraphrasis and the Poetic Past: an Intertextual Reading of Selected Passages Katerina Carvounis (Cambridge) Persuasion in Nonnus' Dionysiaca Session 3: The Style of Nonnus Enrico Magnelli (Florence) Appositives in Nonnus' Hexameter Saturday 14 May, 18:00-20:00 Session 4: The 'School' of Nonnus Pierre Chuvin, Chair Delphine Lauritzen (Bologna/Paris) Nonnus in Gaza Daria Gigli (Florence) John of Gaza and Poetic Inspiration: Emotional Upheaval and Ecstasy in a Neoplatonic Poet Mary Whitby (Oxford) The Last Nonnian Hexameters? George of Pisidia's Poem On Human Life Claudio De Stefani (Naples) The End of the Nonnian 'School'. Some Final Remarks Sunday 15 May, 10:00-13:30 Session 5: Nonnus and Contemporary Society Gianfranco Agosti, Chair Nina Aringer (Vienna) The Heros' Journey of Dionysos as an Individuation of an Age. Approaching the Dionysiaca under the perspective of Jungian Archetypes and the Monomythos of Joseph Campbell Session 6: Nonnus and Latin Literature Michael Paschalis (Rethymno) Ovid and Nonnus: Metamorphosis and poikilon eidos Session 7: Nonnus' Afterlife Domenico Accorinti (Pisa) Simone Weil, Reader of the Dionysiaca 11:30-12:00 Break Session 8: Nonnus and Late Antique Paideia Enrico Magnelli, Chair David Hernández de la Fuente (Madrid/Potsdam) Neoplatonic Form and Content in the Dionysiaca: the Cases of Phaeton and Beroe Nicole Kröll (Vienna) Rhetorical Elements in the Ampelus Episode Rosa García-Gasco (Madrid) Nonnus' Mystic Vocabulary Revisited: Mystis in Dionysiaca 9.111-131 Sunday 15 May, 18:00-20:00 Session 9: Nonnus and Christianity Enrico Livrea, Chair Konstantinos Spanoudakis (Rethymno) The Shield of Salvation: Dionysus' Shield in the Dionysiaca Robert Shorrock (Eton College) Ariadne on Naxos Pierre Chuvin (Paris) Coming to Grips with an Old Problem, the Religion of Nonnus: which kind of Beliefs, Encapsulated in which kind of Poem? 20:00 Concluding Remarks |