Ban Zhao
Pamphile or Pamphila of Epidaurus ( AD 1st century) was a historian of Egyptian descent who lived in Greece during the reign of the Roman emperor Nero (ruled 54 – 68 AD) and wrote in the Greek language. She was the first known female Greco-Roman historian and, along with Ban Zhao, one of the first known female historians. She is best known for her lost work "Historical Commentaries", a collection of miscellaneous historical anecdotes in thirty-three books. Although this collection has been lost, it is frequently cited by the Roman writer Aulus Gellius (c. 125 – after 180 AD) in his "Attic Nights" and by the Greek biographer Diogenes Laërtius in his "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". She is also described in the tenth-century Byzantine encyclopedia, the "Suda", and by the Byzantine writer Photios (c. 810/820 – 893). According to the "Suda", she also wrote a large number of epitomes of the works of other historians as well as treatises on disputes and sex. She may be the author of the anonymous surviving Greek treatise "Tractatus De Mulieribus Claris In Bello", which gives brief biographical accounts of the lives of famous women.