Pamphile of Epidaurus

Pamphile of Epidaurus was a Greek prose writer of the first century CE whose historical miscellany, Historical Commentaries, is known through quotations and summaries by later authors.

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Historical Commentaries: A lost work by Pamphile of Epidaurus, known through later quotations and reports. This miscellany was the work through which Pamphile gathered historical anecdotes and information.
Epidaurus: An ancient Greek city in the northeastern Peloponnese, renowned for its sanctuary of Asclepius. Pamphile’s place-name identifies her with this Greek city.
Suidas: A tenth-century Byzantine lexicon containing biographical, historical, and literary entries. Its entry supplies biographical details about Pamphile and her writing.
Excerpting: The practice of selecting passages from longer works for quotation, compilation, or reference. Later authors transmitted Pamphile by selecting passages rather than preserving her whole work.
Athenaeus: A Greek author of the late second and early third centuries CE, best known for the Deipnosophistae. His Deipnosophistae preserves material attributed to Pamphile.
Roman Greece: The Greek-speaking regions governed by Rome from the second century BCE through late antiquity. Pamphile wrote in the early Roman imperial period, within this political and cultural setting.
Sophron: A fifth-century BCE Greek writer of mimes in prose, associated with Sicily. Pamphile reportedly discusses Sophron and his works in her miscellany.
Indirect tradition: The transmission of a text’s contents through quotations, paraphrases, summaries, or reports by other authors. Pamphile’s miscellany is known through this form of textual survival.
Aulus Gellius: A Roman author of the second century CE whose Attic Nights collects antiquarian and literary notes. He quotes Pamphile as an authority on literary and historical matters.
First-century Greek literature: Greek-language writing produced during the first century CE across the Roman Empire. Pamphile’s prose belongs to this period of Greek literary production.