 However, many modern scholars consider "Philaenis" a fictional character whose "persona" may have been adopted by a variety of erotic writers.Two satirical Greek epigrams from the "Palatine Anthology" by the poets Aeschrion of Samos and Dioscorides purport to defend Philaenis's reputation by insisting that she did not write the treatise attributed to her.Aeschrion instead insists that the treatise was written by the Athenian sophist Polycrates.