Parthenius or Parthenius Chaos
2. Of CHIOS, the son of Thestor, surnamed Chaos, was said to be a descendant of Homer, and wrote a poem on his father, Thestor (Suid.). Suidas also ascribes to him the composition of the Metamorphoses; but we have shown above that this sentence is probably misplaced in Suidas.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.