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12 Down, 36 To Go - Francis Vian (ed., tr.): Nonnos de Panopolis, Les Dionysiaques, Tome IX: Chants XXV–XXIX. Texte établi et traduit. (Collection Budé.) Pp. xiii + 370 (73 double). Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1990.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2009

M. L. West
Affiliation:
All Souls College, Oxford

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1 The previous volumes were reviewed at CR 28 (1978), 8–10 and 36 (1986), 210–11.

2 I recalled the late J. W. B. Barns's verdict on Nonnus (always delivered with a gurgling laugh), ‘he's so bad, he's almost good!’

3 Here, as in many other places, V. refers to an obviously important forthcoming book by P. Chuvin, Mythologie et géographie dionysiaques. Recherches sur l'æuvre de Nonnos de Panopolis.

4 But a false one is printed at 28.287 στα⋯ν.