According to one of the surviving fragments of Philaenis' treatise, the work was written by "Philaenis the Samian, daughter of Ocymenes"[REF] - though Athenaeus calls her "Leucadian" [REF].
Two poems in the Palatine Anthology - one by Aeschrion of Samos, the other by the third-century BC poet Dioscorides - deny that Philaenis wrote the work attributed to her [REF].