Date of Submission
Spring 2017
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Foreign Languages, Cultures, and Literature
Project Advisor 1
William Mullen
Abstract/Artist's Statement
Nonnos’ Dionysiaca is designed as a revolutionary work in the epic genre, to evoke the eponymous god’s dancing energy. He has encoded a deep, pervasive structure in the poem that at once critiques the values implicit in Homeric epic and suggests that life is better lived in harmony with the rhythms of the apparently-chaotic forces in nature. Apparent chaos in Nonnos is bounded by patterns of anticipation, jarring macabre, and comically absurd resolution.
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Recommended Citation
Tauber, Doron Simcha, "Οὐδε γέρων Ἀστραῖος ἀναίνετο: The Dancing God and the Mind of Zeus in Nonnos’ Dionysiaca" (2017). Senior Projects Spring 2017. 130.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2017/130
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