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Nonnus of Panopolis (, Nónnos ho Panopolítēs) was a Greek epic poet of Hellenized Egypt of the Imperial Roman era. He was a native of Panopolis ( Akhmim) in the Egyptian Thebaid and probably lived at the end of the 4th or in the 5th century. He is known as the composer of the Dionysiaca, an epic tale of the god Dionysus, and of the Metabole, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John. The epic Dionysiaca describes the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west, it was written in Homeric dialect and in dactylic hexameter, and it consists of 48 books at 20,426 lines.
Nonnus (, Nónnos) usually refers to Nonnus of Panopolis, a Hellenized Egyptian who wrote the longest-surviving epic poem from antiquity, the Dionysiaca.
Nonnus may also refer to:
- St Nonnus, a probably legendary Syrian bishop from the hagiography of St Pelagia
- Nonnus, bishop of Edessa, frequently but probably mistakenly conflated with St Nonnus & with Nonnus of Panopolis
- Nonnus, bishop of Zerabenna
- Nonnus, a 6th-century historian better known as Nonnosus
- Theophanes Nonnus, a 10th-century Byzantine physician
- Pseudo-Nonnus also called Nonnus Abbas (i.e. "Nonnus the Abbot"), a 6th-century AD commentator on Gregory Nazianzen