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Philostephanus (poet)

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Philostephanus (Ancient Greek: Φιλοστέφανος) was a Greek poet of the old or middle comedy. Little information about him survives.[1]

Athenaeus preserved a four-line excerpt from the comedy "Delian," in which Philostratus appears to mock the habits of the inhabitants of Delos.[2] The preserved excerpt also mentions the names of two leading cooks of antiquity, Daedalus and Thibron the Athenian.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Kassel, R., and C. Austin,Poetae Comici Graeci, (Berlín-New York) 1983-2000,
  2. ^ W. Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, "Philostephanus: a comic poet".
  3. ^ Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 7, chapter 40.