The triumph of Dionysus, depicted on a 2nd-century Roman sarcophagus. Dionysus rides in a chariot drawn by panthers; his procession includes elephants and other exotic animals.
The Dionysiaca/ˌdaɪ.ə.nɪˈzaɪ.ə.kə/ (Greek: Διονυσιακά, Dionysiaká) is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus. It is an epic in 48 books, the longest surviving poem from Greco-Roman antiquity at 20,426 lines, composed in Homeric dialect and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return to the west.
The Dionysiaca /ˌdaɪ.ə.nɪˈzaɪ.ə.kə/ (Greek: Διονυσιακά, Dionysiaká) is an ancient Greek epic poem and the principal work of Nonnus. It is an epic in 48...
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.218 (I pp. 18–19). Nonnus, Dionysiaca 1.508–509 (I pp. 38–41). Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.31–33 (I pp. 46–47). Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2.141–142...
counterpart Caligo was said to have been the mother of Chaos. In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, she seems to be a witch. In Homer, the word achlys (ἀχλύς, 'mist'), is...
composer of the Dionysiaca, an epic tale of the god Dionysus, and of the Metabole, a paraphrase of the Gospel of John. The epic Dionysiaca describes the...
Bound 798–800. Gantz, p. 20; Pindar, Pythian 12.20. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 25.58; see also Dionysiaca 13.77–78, 30.265–266. Wilke, pp. 31–35; Krauskopf and Dahlinger...
romanized: Lḗlantos) is a minor mythological figure that appears in the late epic Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis, written in the early fifth century AD. Lelantos...
his campaign against India. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.105 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.110 Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse...
says also that Aglaea is the youngest of the Charites. According to the Dionysiaca, Aglaea is one of the "dancers of Orchomenus" (i.e. the Charites, per...
his campaign against India. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.105 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.106 Nonnus of Panopolis, Dionysiaca translated by William Henry Denham Rouse...
Winds, since winds often increase around dusk. In Nonnus's epic poem Dionysiaca, Astraeus is presented as an oracular god whom the goddess Demeter visits...
Virgil, Aeneid 6.289 Apollonius Rhodius, 2.298 Hyginus, Fabulae 14 Nonnus, Dionysiaca 26.351ff. Ptolemy Hephaestion, New History 6; Photius, Bibliotheca 190...
jealousy and envy, most prominently in matters of romance. In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, he is by proxy the cause of Semele's death, having informed Hera of Zeus's...
Pausanias, Description of Greece 4.30.5. Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2. 358 and 2. 475 ff Statius, Thebaid, Nonnus, Dionysiaca Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy Grimal, Pierre...
the other winds as well, who then blow the ships back to Aeolia. In the Dionysiaca meanwhile, he and his brothers live with their father Astraeus; Notus...
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