Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India mid-500s Byzantine Dionysos, a son of Zeus, rides in his chariot overseeing his conquest of India as described by the fifth-century Egyptian poet Nonnos of Panopolis: "Lord Bacchus [Dionysos] spoke…Indian slaying servants of invincible Dionysos! Bind them all fast unresisting, the sons of the Indians, take them all prisoners in bloodless conflict.". Ivory Pyx with the Triumph of Dionysos in India 464498

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