Ancora su Nonno e la poesia oracolare

• Main Author: Daria Gigli Piccardi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: ENS Éditions 2012-07-01
• Series: Aitia : Regards sur la Culture Hellénistique au XXIe Siècle
• Subjects: Homeric exegesis; Neoplatonic philosophy; Nonnus' Dyonisiaca and Paraphrasis of St. John's Evangile; oracular poetry; Theosophy Tubingensis'commentaries
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/aitia/486

The main question discussed in this paper concerns the relationship between the oracular poetry of the imperial age and the Greek late-antique Epic, with particular regard to Nonnus of Panopolis. Many parallels are listed between theological oracles – drawn from Porphyry’s Philosophia ex oraculis haurienda and the Theosophia Tubingensis – and Nonnus’ two poems. A special attention has been paid to the commentaries wich follow the oracles in the Theosophy: it is very probable that they were compiled in the same Alexandrian cultural milieu in which Nonnus operated.