'Parthenius of
Nicaea' in
Bithynia was a
Greek grammarian and
poet. He was taken prisoner by
Cinna in the
Mithridatic Wars and carried to
Rome in
72 BC. He subsequently visited
Neapolis, where he taught
Virgil Greek. Parthenius was a writer of
elegies, especially
dirges, and of short
epic poems. His only surviving work, the ''Erotica Pathemata'' (''Of the Sorrows of Love''), made for the poet
Cornelius Gallus, is a collection of 36 love-stories which ended unhappily, taken from different historians and poets. As Parthenius generally quotes his authorities, these stories are valuable as affording information on the Alexandrian poets and grammarians. Parthenius is said to have lived until the accession of
Tiberius in
14 AD. He is sometimes called "the last of the Alexandrians".
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Online text: Parthenius, Love Romances translated by S. Gaselee, 1916
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