1898. A study in comparative literature. The Apollonius Saga is known to nearly every language of Europe. The long line of translations, imitations, romances, ballads and plays ends at the last in the culminating splendor of Shakespeare's Pericles Prince of Tyre. The Story of Apollonius; The Origin of the Story; German Versions, Dutch Ballad; Modern Greek Versions; Correlated Stories. Woodcut illustrations depicting story.