Parthenius

Family: Flavian · Role: Greek poet · First appears: Tiberius 70

Life events

• Tiberius composed Greek poems imitating Euphorion, Rhianus, and Parthenius.(Tiberius 70)
  • With: Tiberius Euphorion Rhianus
  • “and also some Greek poems, in imitation of Euphorion, Rhianus, and Parthenius.”
• Tiberius placed the poets’ works and statues in public libraries.(Tiberius 70)
  • With: Tiberius Euphorion Rhianus
  • “These poets he greatly admired, and placed their works and statues in the public libraries, amongst the eminent authors of antiquity.”
• Domitian was slain in his chamber after Parthenius stopped him with a supposed urgent visitor.(Domitian 16)
  • With: Domitian
  • “Parthenius, his chamberlain, stopped him, by saying that there was a person come to wait upon him about a matter of great importance, which would admit of no delay. Upon this, ordering all persons to withdraw, he retired into his chamber, and was there slain.”

Tiberius 70

• admirer: Tiberius “These poets he greatly admired, and placed their works and statues in the public libraries, amongst the eminent authors of antiquity.”

Domitian 16

• employer: Domitian “Parthenius, his chamberlain, stopped him, by saying that there was a person come to wait upon him about a matter of great importance, which would admit of no delay.”

Domitian 17

• protégé: Maximus “Maximus, a freedman of Parthenius’s”

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Extracted from the original text of The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Made with Rho MD.