Editing Nonnus (section)

==Life==
There is almost no evidence for the life of Nonnus. It is known that he was a native of Panopolis ([[Akhmim]]) in [[Upper Egypt]] from his naming in manuscripts and the reference in epigram 9.198 of the ''[[Palatine Anthology]]''.{{efn|On the references to Egypt in the poem, see D. Gigli Piccardi (1998), “Nonno e l’Egitto”, Prometheus 24, 61-82 and 161-81. Enrico Livrea has proposed the identification of the poet with the Syrian bishop of Edessa of the same name.<ref>E. Livrea (1987), “Il poeta e il vescovo: la questione nonniana e la storia”, Prometheus 13, 97-123</ref>}} Scholars have generally dated him from the end of the 4th to the central years of the 5th century AD. He must have lived after the composition of [[Claudian]]'s Greek ''Gigantomachy'' (i.e., after 394–397) as he appears to be familiar with that work. [[Agathias|Agathias Scholasticus]] seems to have followed him, with a mid-6th-century reference to him as a "recent author".<ref>[[Agathias Scholasticus]], ''Hist.'' 4.23. (530&nbsp;{{abbr|x|sometime between}} 580)</ref><ref>Fornaro, S. s.v. Nonnus in ''Brill's New Pauly'' vol. 9 (ed. Canick & Schneider) (Leiden, 2006) col.812–815</ref>

He is sometimes conflated with [[St Nonnus]] from the [[hagiographies]] of [[St Pelagia]] and with [[Nonnus (bishop of Edessa)|Nonnus]], the [[bishop of Edessa]] who attended the [[Council of Chalcedon]], both of whom seem to have been roughly contemporary, but these associations are probably mistaken.{{sfnp|Cameron|2016|pp=85&nbsp;ff}}

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