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Philinna
Greek name
Greek name
Philinna (Greek: Φίλιννα) or Philine (Greek: Φιλίνη) was the name of many Greek women.
The dancer Philinna of Larissa in Thessaly, was the mother of Philip III Arrhidaeus by Philip II.
A first-century-BC papyrus fragment, the Philinna Papyrus, preserves a spell to cure headaches attributed to one Philinna the Thessalian.
It was also the name of the mother of the poet Theocritus (Ep. 3).
The name occurs in Aristophanes' drama The Clouds.
In the eighteenth century Goethe used it for a character in his novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
References
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
- Athenaeus. xiii. p. 557, e ; Photius. Bibl. p. 64. 23.
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