Philostratus
Φιλόστρατος
(Φιλόστρατος) historical.
1. An Athenian, who seems to have followed the infamous trade of a brothel-keeper. He is satirized by Aristophanes, who calls him κυναλώπηξ, a cross between a dog and a fox. (Arist. Eq. 1064, Lys. 957.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.