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Book: Women Writers of Ancient Greece and Rome

Chapter: Philaenis

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.19996

Blurb:

(fl. 4th century BC)

Philaenis was well known in antiquity as the author of pornography. The first mention of her is by Timaeus of Tauromenium who lived in the fourth and third centuries BC.1

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