Parthenius of Nicaea was an erudite Greek and Latin author in first-century BGC Rome. Parthenius was brought to Rome as captive from Bithynia about 70 GC. He rose among the literary authorities of Rome to become Virgil’s teacher and a literary colleague of Cornelius Gallus. Sometime between 52 and 26 BGC, Parthenius wrote his Greek story-collection Sufferings in Love {Ἐρωτικὰ Παθήματα} for Cornelius Gallus. That story-collection provides critical insights into gender in ancient societies.
Parthenius depicts moral reflection & self-judgment against love madness. That differs from the critique of Gallus’s elegiac love in Virgil’s Eclogues. … Read the post moral reflection in Parthenius’s poets summons to self-judgment