Nonnus of Panopolis

1 standalone book

Nonnus of Panopolis was the most notable Greek epic poet of the Imperial Roman era. A native of Panopolis (Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid, he probably lived in the 5th century AD. He is known as the author of the Dionysiaca, an epic on the god Dionysus and his expedition to India written in Homeric Greek and dactylic hexameter, and of the Metabole, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John.