Pamphile
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Pamphile (Greek: Παμφίλη), Panphyle, Plateae filia or Latoi filia, was the daughter of Plateas, or of Apollo (Latous),[1] a woman of the Greek island of Kos. Pliny the Elder says that she was the first person to weave silk. [2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ 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
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 11.(26).76.
Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Allen, Prudence, The Concept of Woman: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500, Part 2, p. 631; Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
