Pamphile or Pamphila of Epidaurus (Greek: Παμφίλη ἡ Ἐπιδαυρία, Pamphílē hē Epidauría; Latin: Pamphila; fl. AD 1st century) was a historian who lived in the reign of Nero. According to the Suda she was an Epidaurian; Photius describes her as an Egyptian by birth or descent, which may be reconciled by supposing that she was a native of Epidaurus, and that her family came from Egypt. Photius summarizes the preface to her work, in which we learn that during the thirteen years she had lived with her husband, from whom she was never absent for a single hour, she was constantly at work upon her book, and that she diligently wrote down whatever she heard from her husband and from the many other learned people who frequented their house, as well as whatever she herself read in books. Hence we can a