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Love Romances

work by Parthenius of Nicaea

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In short story: The Greeks
The Love Romances of Parthenius of Nicaea, who wrote during the reign of Augustus, is a collection of 36 prose stories of unhappy lovers. The Milesian Tales (no longer extant) was an extremely popular collection of erotic and ribald stories composed by Aristides of Miletus in…
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