Pamphile

Panphyle in Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris

Pamphile (Greek: Παμφίλη), Panphyle, Plateae filia or Latoi filia, was the daughter of Plateas, or of Apollo (Latous), a woman of the Greek island of Kos. Pliny the Elder says that she was the first person to weave silk.

References

  1. ↑ Longman, 1827 Classical Manual; or, a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Æneid of Virgil, with a copious index
  2. ↑ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 11.(26).76.

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