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principal work is the 48-book epic Dionysiaca, the longest surviving poem from classical antiquity. It has 21,286 lines composed in Homeric Greek and dactylic hexameters, the main subject of which is the life of Dionysus, his expedition to India, and his triumphant return. The poem is to be dated to the 5th century. It used to be considered of poor

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