...Roman Empire extend "from the setting of the sun to the river Euphrates" (114). 102. Pliny HN. 7.95: aequato non modo Alexandri Magni rerum fulgore, sed etiam Herculis prope ac Liberi patris; Purcell 1995, 139, for this description of Hercules and Dionysus. 103. Clarke 19993, 308. Lucan refers...