Tags: Poem.
The Theriaca (Ancient Greek: Θηριακά) is the longest surviving work of the 2nd-century BC Greek poet Nicander of Colophon.It is a 958-line hexameter poem describing the nature of venomous creatures including snakes spiders and scorpions and the wounds that they inflict.Nicander also wrote the companion work Alexipharmaca which explored other poisons and venoms.
