The Complete Works of Parthenius. Illustrated

Parthenius was a writer of elegies, especially dirges, and of short epic poems. Erotica Pathemata is a collection of thirty-six epitomes of love-stories, all of which have tragic or sentimental endings, taken from histories and historicised fictions as well as poetry. Contents: LOVE ROMANCES FRAGMENTS THE GREEK TEXT (????????? ????????? ??????)

Parthenius of Nicaea in Bithynia was a Greek grammarian and poet. According to the Suda, he was the son of Heraclides and Eudora, or according to Hermippus of Berytus, his mother's name was Tetha. He was taken prisoner by Helvius Cinna in the Mithridatic Wars and carried to Rome in 72 BC.