Episode 96: The Last Pagan Epic (Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Books 1-24)
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The last epic from Greco-Roman antiquity that survives in full, Nonnus’ fifth-century Dionysiaca tells of the wine god Dionysus’ journey eastward, to India.
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