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Parthenius of Nicaea · 1st century BC

Love Romances

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Thirty-six brief stories of unhappy love, most of them ending in death, gathered by Parthenius as raw material for poets. Each story names the earlier author it comes from. The English is Gaselee's 1916 Loeb translation; the Greek is Hercher's text.

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Text
Greek original with English translation, 14 passages, about 10000 words in English.
Translator
Stephen Gaselee (1916)
Edition
Rudolf Hercher (ed.), Erotici scriptores Graeci, Leipzig: Teubner, 1858 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus)
Cite as
Parthenius of Nicaea, Love Romances 1.1 (by chapter, section)

Contents · 14 passages

  1. 1.1–2.3Lyrcus and Hemithea; Odysseus and Polymela743 words
  2. 3.1–4.5Odysseus and Evippe; Alexander and Oenone584 words
  3. 5.1–6.5Leucippus and his sister; Pallene and Clitus844 words
  4. 7.1–8.8Antileon and Hipparinus; Xanthus and Herippe994 words
  5. 9.1–10.4Polycrite and Diognetus; Leucone and Cyanippus899 words
  6. 11.1–13.5Caunus and Byblis; Calchus and Circe; Clymenus and Harpalyce837 words
  7. 14.1–15.5Cleoboea and Antheus; Daphne, Leucippus and Apollo840 words
  8. 16.1–17.6Laodice and Acamas; Periander and his mother755 words
  9. 18.1–20.2Neaera and Promedon; Pancrato; Aero and Orion455 words
  10. 21.1–22.1Pisidice and Achilles; Nanis and Cyrus507 words
  11. 23.1–25.4Chilonis and Acrotatus; Hipparinus and Achaeus; Phayllus536 words
  12. 26.1–28.1Apriate and Trambelus; Alcinoe; Clite and Cyzicus580 words
  13. 29.1–32.5Daphnis; Celtine and Heracles; Dimoetes; Anthippe653 words
  14. 33.1–36.6Assaon and Niobe; Corythus; Eulimene and Lycastus; Arganthone and Rhesus781 words

English translation by Stephen Gaselee (1916). Original text: Rudolf Hercher (ed.), Erotici scriptores Graeci, Leipzig: Teubner, 1858 (Greek text as digitised by Perseus).

Greek text and translation from the Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Perseus Digital Library, Greek text); translation public domain (OCR from the Internet Archive scan). Introductions, summaries and notes © GreekMythology.com.