In my review of the first volume of the DIONYSIACA, I stated that the book felt like a poor man's rendition of Homer and Ovid. As it turns out, I complained far too soon—Nonnus is clearly parodying the epics of old, and infusing it with an utter cynicism that makes manifest one of the greatest criti...
Oh, Loeb. You and your terrible, terrible translations of classic literature. To give the publisher some credit, though, it's not entirely clear exactly how much fault lies with the translator or the author himself. Nonnos' Dionysiaca is what happens when someone wants to tell Ovid's Metamorphoses a...
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