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Nonnus of Panopolis
Nonnus of Panopolis
c. 415 CE–c. 475 CE · Panopolis (Akhmim)
Nonnus of Panopolis in Egypt (active 5th century CE) was a Greek epic poet, the last major poet of the classical Greek tradition. He wrote the 'Dionysiaca,' an enormous epic on the god Dionysus that is the longest surviving poem from antiquity, and a verse paraphrase of the Gospel of John. His ornate, virtuosic style strongly shaped later Greek poetry.
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Panopolis, modern Akhmim in Upper Egypt on the east bank of the Nile, was a center of Greek learning in late antiquity. It was the birthplace of the epic poet Nonnus, author of the Dionysiaca, and of the poet Triphiodorus.
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