Nonnus (disambiguation)
Nonnus (Greek: Νόννος, 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
See also
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