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1200 BCE: The Median clans are among the Indo-Iranian migrant tribes from Central Asia and/or Caucasus to North Zagros, Iran.
600 BCE: The lost epic poem Alcmeonis is thought to have been penned. It contains the earliest known mention of Zagreus.
200 BCE: Around when Dionysian rites were first performed in Rome, known there as Bacchanalia.
400 CE: Nonnus writes the Dionysiaca, which tells the life of Dionysos. At 48 books and 20,426 lines it is the longest surviving poem from Greco-Roman antiquity.