Pamphila

(Παμφίλη). A woman writer of history. She lived in the time of Nero and wrote an historical miscellany (Συμμίκτων Ἱστορικῶν Ὑπομνημάτων λόγοι). She is variously described as a Greek and as an Egyptian. See Aulus Gellius, xv. 23, where he cites her eleventh book.