According to Strabo, Bithynia was bounded on the east by the river Sangarius ( modern Sakarya river ), but the more commonly received division extended it to the Parthenius, which separated it from Paphlagonia, thus comprising the district inhabited by the Mariandyni.

A version of the attempt on Daphne's sworn virginity that has been less familiar since the Renaissance was narrated by the Hellenistic poet Parthenius, in his Erotica Pathemata, " The Sorrows of Love ".

At this moment Apollo's attention becomes engaged, and he begins his own pursuit ; Parthenius ' modern editor remarks on the rather awkward transition, linking two narratives.

According to Strabo, the river Parthenius formed the western limit of the region, and it was bounded on the east by the Halys river.

As Parthenius generally quotes his authorities, these stories are valuable as affording information on the Alexandrian poets and grammarians.

The historian Cassius Dio, writing more than a century after the assassination, claimed that Domitia chanced upon a list of courtiers Domitian intended to put to death, and passed the information to his chamberlain Parthenius.

Parthenius of Nicaea recorded a love affair between Odysseus and Aeolus ' daughter Polymele ; the latter was said to have ended up betrothed to her own brother Diores.

A highly detailed account of the plot and the assassination is provided by Suetonius, who alleges that Domitian's chamberlain Parthenius was the chief instigator behind the conspiracy, citing the recent execution of Domitian's secretary Epaphroditus as the primary motive.

The murder itself was carried out by a freedman of Parthenius named Maximus, and a steward of Domitian's niece Flavia Domitilla, named Stephanus.

An earlier version ascribed to the poet Parthenius of Nicaea, composed around 50 BC, was recently rediscovered among the Oxyrhynchus papyri at Oxford.

According to Parthenius of Nicaea, he was to be married to Harpalyce, who, however, was taken from him by her father Clymenus.

: Anchiale, daughter of Iapetus, founded Anchiale ( a city near Tarsus ): her son was Cydnus, who gave his name to the river at Tarsus: the son of Cydnus was Parthenius, from whom the city was called Parthenia: afterwards the name was changed to Tarsus.

The first edition of the Greek original appeared in Heidelberg, 1601, printed together with similar works of Longus and Parthenius ; another edition was published by Claudius Salmasius in Leiden, 1640, with commentary.

The first known bishop in Lampsacus was Parthenius, under Constantine I.

In both these poems, the language of which was so obscure that they required special commentaries, his model appears to have been Parthenius of Nicaea.

Parthenius of Nicaea or Myrlea in Bithynia was a Greek grammarian and poet.

Parthenius was a writer of elegies, especially dirges, and of short epic poems.

The only surviving manuscript of Parthenius was called Palatinus Heidelbergensis graecus 398 ( P ), probably written in mid-9th century.

Rhesus the Thracian king was himself associated with Bithynia through his love with the Bithynian huntress Arganthone, in the Erotika Pathemata for Love " by Parthenius of Nicaea, chapter 36.

* Saint Parthenius ( died 4th-century, Rome ), Armenian saint and martyr from Rome, who suffered martyrdom during the reign of Decius.

Parthenius of Nicaea cites two versions of Byblis ' story, one of which is generally the same as that recounted by Ovid, but ends with Byblis hanging herself with her girdle.

* Hierarch Parthenius of Lampsacus, bishop of Lampsacus in the 4th century

* Parthenius of Nicaea ( 1st-century BC – 14 AD ), Greek grammarian and poet

Parthenius is said to have lived until the accession of Tiberius in 14 AD.

The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

The tale has been adapted to various media, most notably the opera Hänsel und Gretel ( opera ) | Hänsel und Gretel ( 1893 ) by Engelbert Humperdinck and a stop-motion animated feature film based on the opera.

The tale was composed by Irving while he was living in England, and was based on popular tales told by colonial Dutch settlers of New York's Hudson River valley.

The tale of a witch hunter in the English Civil War, based on the historical Matthew Hopkins ( Vincent Price ), was more sadistic than supernatural.

Shakespeare experts Sir John Gielgud and Kenneth Branagh consider the definitive rendition of the Bard's tragic tale to be the 1964 Russian film Gamlet () based on a translation by Boris Pasternak and directed by Grigori Kozintsev, with a score by Dmitri Shostakovich.

* The Estoire del Saint Graal, the first part of the Vulgate Cycle ( but written after Lancelot and the Queste ), based on Robert ’ s tale but expanding it greatly with many new details.

Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.

Except for some TV work in the late seventies, Caprino made no more puppet films, focusing instead on creating attractions for the Hunderfossen theme park outside Lillehammer based on his folk tale movies, and making tourist films using a custom built multi camera setup of his own design that shoots 280 degrees panorama movies.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

Cinthio's tale may have been based on an actual incident occurring in Venice about 1508.

In addition, he suggests the mythical elements of the tale were based on the fictional adventures of Sun Wukong from the classical novel Journey to the West.

* Writer / director Lucio Fulci's 1981 film The Black Cat is loosely based on Poe's tale.

Emilia narrates this tale, one part of which ( the motif of using extra fine bow strings ) supposedly is based on a real event, according to a chronicle by Giovanni Villani.

* The 1992 film The Lawnmower Man ( which bore little resemblance to the Stephen King story on which it was ostensibly based ) tells the tale of a research scientist who uses a VR system to jumpstart the mental and physical development of his mentally handicapped gardener.

It also features prominently in the science-fiction novels of Michael Flynn, particularly in The Wreck of the River of Stars ( 2003 ); this book is the tale of the last flight of a magnetic sail ship when fusion rockets based on the Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor have become the preferred technology.

The plot of Cymbeline is based on a tale in the chronicles of Raphael Holinshed and is ultimately derived from part of the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth about the real-life British monarch Cunobelinus.

Carlo Gozzi made use of many fairy tale motifs among his Commedia dell ' Arte scenarios, including among them one based on The Love For Three Oranges ( 1761 ).

Béla Bartók composed the secular Cantata Profana, subtitled " The Nine Splendid Stags " and based on a Romanian folk tale, in 1930.

The character of Faustus, likely based on a historical 16th century magician or charlatan, became the prototypical popular tale of a learned magician who succumbs to a pact with the devil.

Although the Mabinogion tale The Dream of Macsen Wledig is written in later manuscripts than Geoffrey's version, the two accounts are so different that scholars agree the Dream cannot be based purely on Geoffrey's version.

During these years Holst also became interested in Hindu mysticism and spirituality, and this interest led to the composition of several works set to translations of Sanskrit texts, including: Sita ( 1899 – 1906 ), a three-act opera based on an episode in the Ramayana ; Sāvitri ( 1908 ), a chamber opera based on a tale from the Mahabharata ; 4 groups of Hymns from the Rig Veda ( 1908 – 14 ); and two texts originally by Kalidasa: Two Eastern Pictures ( 1909 – 10 ) and The Cloud Messenger ( 1913 ).

The following year they collaborated on a musical film version of The Little Prince, based on the classic children's tale by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

* Christmas pantomime ( British English ) — a type of musical comedy performed around Christmas based on a fairy tale

The movie employs the story within a story device, being about a young ballerina who joins an established ballet company and becomes the lead dancer in a new ballet called The Red Shoes, itself based on the fairy tale " The Red Shoes " by Hans Christian Andersen.