Megalography:
- The depiction of great or grand things, such as heroes and gods. [Art And Popular Culture]
I must say the definitions presented in the DuckDuckGo summaries for megalography had a greater variance than average. Noted in “DINING WITH DIONYSUS,” Benjamin Leonard, Archaeology (January/February 2026):
Inside a large house in a part of Pompeii called Regio IX, a team from the Archaeological Park of Pompeii unearthed a splendidly decorated dining room that eighteenth-century excavators had stumbled upon but largely ignored. Opening onto a garden, the vaulted room is lined with partially preserved columns painted a rich red that frame frescoed wall panels. Archaeologists were surprised to discover that the frescoes represent a rare example of a megalography—a group of paintings depicting nearly life-size figures, in this case part of the retinue of Dionysus, the god of wine. Researchers have dubbed the residence the House of the Thiasus, after the term for a Dionysian procession, and have dated the frescoes to between 40 and 30 B.C. on the basis of their style.
