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Pamphila Of Kos
Pamphila may refer to: *Pamphile of Epidaurus Pamphile or Pamphila of Epidaurus, ''Pamphílē hē Epidauría'' ( 1st century AD) was a historian of Egyptian descent who lived in Greece during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero (ruled 54 – 68 AD) and wrote in the Greek language. She was the ..., Ancient Greek historian * ''Pamphila'' (genus), formerly-recognised genus of butterfly {{dab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pamphile Of Epidaurus
Pamphile or Pamphila of Epidaurus, ''Pamphílē hē Epidauría'' ( 1st century AD) was a historian of Egyptian descent who lived in Greece during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero (ruled 54 – 68 AD) and wrote in the Greek language. She was the first known female Greco-Roman historian and, along with Ban Zhao, one of the first known female historians. She is best known for her lost work ''Historical Commentaries'', a collection of miscellaneous historical anecdotes in thirty-three books. Although this collection has been lost, it is frequently cited by the Roman writer Aulus Gellius (c. 125 – after 180 AD) in his ''Attic Nights'' and by the Greek biographer Diogenes Laërtius in his ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers''. She is also described in the tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia, the ''Suda'', and by the Byzantine writer Photios (c. 810/820 – 893). According to the ''Suda'', she also wrote a large number of epitomes of the works of other historians as well as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
