Hexaëmeron

work by Dracontius

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In Blossius Aemilius Dracontius
…Middle Ages under the title Hexaëmeron. The tragedy Orestes—927 lines on the murder of Agamemnon and the revenge of his son, Orestes—has been transmitted without Dracontius’s name but is now held to be his. Dracontius demonstrates wide familiarity with pagan Latin literature and with the Bible.
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