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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), was set out, the poet says in his preface, "in the shortest possible form" and dedicated to the poet
Cornelius Gallus, as "a storehouse from which to draw material".
Erotica Pathemata is a collection of thirty-six
epitomes of love-stories, all of which which have tragic or sentimental endings, taken from histories and historicised fictions as well as poetry.
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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