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In Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio dramas, Zagreus is a nursery rhyme villain on Gallifrey. Zagreus is also the title of an audio drama concerning this character.
In Wyndham Lewis' 1930 satirical novel The Apes of God, there is a character named Horace Zagreus who serves as mentor of the hapless protagonist, Daniel Boleyn. Later, Zagreus drops Boleyn in favor of another young protégé, Archie Margolin, before finally marrying the wealthy, elderly Lady Fredigonde, generally considered to be a parody of Dame Edith Sitwell.
The character Zagreus plays a critical part in in Albert Camus' novel A Happy Death.
In the HBO drama True Blood, the character Maryann, a maenad, uses this origin story for Dionysus during a ritual. Zagreus' heart being the only remaining part of him is the reason she ritually steals the hearts of her victims in sacrifice to her god.
In the Generator Rex cartoon, a rogue computer program named ZAG-RS (A contraction of Zagreus) is a recurring villain.
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