Theriaca (poem)
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This article is about the poem by Nicander. For other uses, see Theriaca (disambiguation).
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.[1]
Nicander also wrote the companion work Alexipharmaca, which explored other poisons and venoms.