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This is an excellent project, one that may bring a long-deserved audience to one of the great poets of the Greek world. --Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, The Ohio State University -- Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

Nonnus and Dionysus have given new zest to my thoughts about Greek literature and ancient mythology. . . . To all involved - editors, contributors including Douglass Parker, publishers. . . - Bravo. --Penelope Wilson in Translation and Literature--Penelope Wilson Translation and Literature (3/1/2023 12:00:00 AM) This is an excellent project, one that may bring a long-deserved audience to one of the great poets of the Greek world. --Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, The Ohio State University -- Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

"""[T]he Dionysiaca is made of 48 books, written in a convoluted and constantly changing style, supercharged with long compound adjectives, most of which have no obvious equivalent in modern languages. Tales of Dionysus is therefore a welcome addition to our libraries, and an original one."" --Bryn Mawr Classical Review--Laura Miguélez-Cavero, Complutense University of Madrid ""Bryn Mawr Classical Review"" ""Levitan (Grand Valley State Univ.) and Lombardo (Univ. of Kansas) succeed in their aims of making the Dionysiaca more accessible and of illustrating the varied options available in modern translation practice."" --Choice--S. E. Goins, McNeese State University ""Choice"" (5/1/2023 12:00:00 AM) ""Nonnus and Dionysus have given new zest to my thoughts about Greek literature and ancient mythology. . . . To all involved - editors, contributors including Douglass Parker, publishers. . . - Bravo."" --Penelope Wilson in Translation and Literature--Penelope Wilson ""Translation and Literature"" (3/1/2023 12:00:00 AM) ""This is an excellent project, one that may bring a long-deserved audience to one of the great poets of the Greek world."" --Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, The Ohio State University -- ""Benjamin Acosta-Hughes"""

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William Levitan is Professor of Classics Emeritus at Grand Valley State University. Stanley Lombardo is Professor Emeritus of Classics at The University of Kansas.

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