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
References
- 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
Further reading
- Allen, Prudence, The Concept of Woman: The Early Humanist Reformation, 1250-1500, Part 2, p. 631; ISBN 0-8028-3347-0