The Complete Works of Parthenius of Nicaea. Love Romances. 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. In Parthenius' own time, he was not famous for his prose but his poems. These are listed below: Arete Dirge on Archelais Aphrodite Bias Delos Krinagoras Leucadiai Anthippe Dirge on Auxithemis Idolophanes Herakles Iphiklos Metamorphoses Propemptikon A Greek original of Moretum. Parthenius is one of the few ancient writers whose work survives in only one manuscript. The only surviving manuscript of Parthenius was called Palatinus Heidelbergensis graecus.