Dionysiaca /

• Main Author: Νόννος ο Πανοπολίτης, 5ος αιώνας μ.Χ (συγγραφέας.)
• Other Authors: Rouse, W. H. D. (William Henry Denham), 1863-1950 (μεταφραστής.)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English; Ancient Greek
• Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1940-1984.
• Series: Loeb Classical Library 344, 354, 356.
• Subjects: Διόνυσος (Θεός) > Ποίηση.; Μυθολογία, Ελληνική > Ποίηση.; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία; Επική ποίηση, Ελληνική.

The epic Dionysiaca by Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt (fifth century CE) concerns Dionysus' earthly career from birth at Thebes to reception on Olympus. In a poem full of mythology, astrology, and magic, Nonnos relates the god's conquest of the East and also, sensually and explicitly, his am...