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Philaenis of Samos, daughter of Okymenes (early second century AD), Greek poetess, author of The Art of Love
"She treated the art of love systematically, including descriptions of sexual positions, aphrodisiacs, abortifacients, and cosmetics" See http://www.csad.ox.ac.uk/POxy/VExhibition/2891.htm
According to Aeschrion the work attributed to Philaenis was written by Polycrates, an Athenian sophist, who, it is said, placed the name of Philaenis on his volume for the purpose of blasting her reputation Erotic Classical Writers
D. W. Thomson Vessey, “Philaenis”, REVUE BELGE DE PHILOLOGIE ET D'HISTOIRE, 54 (1976) 78-83.
Judith P. Hallett, Marilyn B. Skinner, Roman Sexualities. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-691-01178-8. (Review)
Dominic Montserrat, Sex and Society in Graeco-Roman Egypt. London and New York: Kegan Paul International, 1996. . ISBN 0-7103-0530-3. (Review)
BIBLIOTHECA EROTICA GRAECA ET LATINA
Other erotic writers
- Sappho
- Callistrate of Lesbos, poetess, noted for obscene verses
- Elephantis
- Sphodrias
- Aristides of Miletus
- Philaenis of Samos, daughter of Okymenes
- Sotades of Mantineia
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