Philostephanus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Protrepticus
Author cited as the source recording the Pygmalion/ivory-statue story.
the Cyprian is overcome by the figure and unites with the statue — and this Philostephanus records.
Stromata
Author listed among the sources of the catalogue of inventions.
Scamon of Mitylene, then, and Theophrastus of Eresus, and Cydippus of Mantinea, and besides Antiphanes and Aristodemus and Aristotle, and besides these Philostephanus, and Strato the Peripatetic too, in his works On Discoveries, related these things.