Philemon the Younger on Culinary and Medical Dialogues

Philemon the Younger, third century BCE, is the name this site attaches to a Greek writer of κωμῳδία, later called son of Philemon of Syracuse. Later reports place him in the years of Ptolemy II, at Athens and perhaps at Alexandria.

The Suda, a tenth-century Greek book, credits two comedies, Homoia and Paidion, and the older author-notice says no fragments survive. What this site holds is a later heading, Culinary and Medical Dialogues, also called Apospasmata. The title-list and the heading do not match. One work-notice warns that later hosts mix this name with the elder Philemon.

The plays as books are not here. The lines, if they are his, travel as excerpts under a later title.