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Philostephanus (Ancient Greek: Φιλοστέφανος) was a Greek poet of the old or middle comedy. Little information about him survives.

Athenaeus preserved a four-line excerpt from the comedy "Delian," in which Philostratus appears to mock the habits of the inhabitants of Delos. The preserved excerpt also mentions the names of two leading cooks of antiquity, Daedalus and Thibron the Athenian.

References

1. Kassel, R., and C. Austin,Poetae Comici Graeci, (Berlín-New York) 1983-2000,
2. W. Smith, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, "Philostephanus: a comic poet".
3. Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 7, chapter 40.

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