Why don't we ever talk about this banger?
>>24109173Have a copy but haven't read it yet. If you sell me on it, I'll comment when I'm done.
>>24109173>mfw I'm named after Dionysus Should I read it?
>>24109173You like it? Isn’t this the one where the translators always talk shit about it in the preface?
>>24110661>Isn’t this the one where the translators always talk shit about it in the preface?signs you're about to read kino
>>24110313>sell me on it
>>24111529>some very weird battle scenes and ugly sexual assaults take up well more than half of itI will now read your book
>>24111529Well, despite being what I expected, color me curious.
this mf named Nonce
>The unshaken congregation of the fixt stars with unanimous acclamation left their places and caught up their travelling fellows. The axis passing through the heaven's hollow and fixt upright in the midst, groaned at the sound. Orion the hunter, seeing these tribes of wild beasts, drew his sword; the blade of the Tanagraian brand sparkled bright as its master made ready for attack; his thirsty Dog, shooting light from his fiery chin, bubbled up in his starry throat and let out a hot bark, and blew out the steam from his teeth against Typhaon's beasts instead of the usual hare. The sky was full of din, and, answering the seven-zoned heaven, the seven-throated cry of the Pleiads raised the war-shout from as many throats; and the planets as many again banged out an equal noise.
>Zeus tells Dionysus to invade India because they're "impious"What does that mean in the context of Ancient Greece?
>>24114808They stopped drinking the cow piss
>>24114808Impiety in its oldest sense (of the Greek word asebeia) amounted to lack of awe or respect proper to the sacred and divine. Not having read this, I'm not sure if Nonnus uses that sense, or if he's using the later sense of "heretic" that it tended to mean in the late Christian Imperial period of Rome when he wrote.
>>24114808Maybe Nietzscheans were right about the crusades being a pagan influence.
>when Dionysus gets a girl drunk to rape her and the ghost of the guy the girl rejected shows up to make fun of her for getting raped>when the Indian general challenges Dionysus to single combat and kills himself after realizing he can't win>when Dionysus banishes the darkest skinned Indian to Ethiopia simply an amazing book
>>24114808Literally that they don't drink enough. Dionysus is doing Opium Wars.
