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Dionysiaca

Dionysiaka

The longest surviving poem from antiquity, forty-eight books recounting the god Dionysus's mythic conquest of India, pushes Homeric epic meter and vocabulary to a baroque, digression-filled extreme at the very end of the pagan Greek epic tradition.

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