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Title: The Mandatum, the Body, and Love in Nonnus, Paraphrasis 13
Author(s): MacCOULL, Leslie S.B.
Journal: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies
Volume: 59    Issue: 1-2   Date: 2007   
Pages: 1-9
DOI: 10.2143/JECS.59.1.2023425

Abstract :
This essay proposes to study the ways Nonnus transformed John’s narrative into Homeric verses for his audience’s edification for what they can tell us about the mentality of his time. The author argues that the strikingly physicalised approach to the Washing of the Feet in Paraphrasis 13 says a lot about enactment of ‘the poetics of the Christian body’ in fifth-century Alexandria.