{"product_id":"tales-of-dionysus-the-dionysiaca-of-nonnus-of-panopolis-9780472038961","title":"Tales of Dionysus: The Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales of Dionysus \u003c\/i\u003eis the first English verse translation of one of the most extraordinary poems of the Greek literary tradition, the \u003ci\u003eDionysiaca \u003c\/i\u003eof Nonnus of Panopolis. By any standard, the \u003ci\u003eDionysiaca \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003elast \u003c\/i\u003eancient 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTales of Dionysus\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTales of Dionysus\u003c\/i\u003e into a showcase of the multiple possibilities open to classical translation in the contemporary world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Levitan\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Classics Emeritus at Grand Valley State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Lombardo\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Classics at The University of Kansas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50679009509650,"sku":"9780472038961","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e538cf21-5ac5-4175-8d22-09302ff8e703.jpg?v=1733899720","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tales-of-dionysus-the-dionysiaca-of-nonnus-of-panopolis-9780472038961","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}