Philaenis of Samos

300 BC–250 BC

author of an ancient sex manual

writer · hetaera

Born in Samos

Contemporaries

People who walked the earth at the same time as Philaenis of Samos:

• Archimedes (286 BC–211 BC)
• Euclid (333 BC–284 BC)
• Ashoka (303 BC–231 BC)
• Epicurus (341 BC–269 BC)
• Chanakya Kautilya (374 BC–282 BC)
• Eratosthenes (275 BC–193 BC)
• Zeno of Citium (333 BC–262 BC)
• Qin Shi Huang (258 BC–209 BC)

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