C5 BCE; Kassel-Austin, PCG 7.363-369. See generally K.J. Dover in OCD(4) s.v. Philonides(1): 'Athenian comic poet, produced Aristophanes' Wasps, Amphiaraus, and Frogs; we have three titles of his own plays, and he may be the Phil[-- who won first prize at the City Dionysia c.410 BC.' It is generally believed that Philonides was one of Aristophanes' (alpha 3932) actors, who is said to have committed to him and to Kallistratos his chief characters; an alternative view of the evidence, however, is that several of Aristophanes' plays were actually produced and staged in the names of Kallistratos and Philonides. Besides the specialised bibliography below, see the overview of the problem in D.M. MacDowell, Aristophanes and Athens (Oxford 1995) 34-41.
For his son see already nu 407.
[1] So literally; but this means, here as sometimes elsewhere in the Suda, writer of Old Comedy.
[2] The play Kothornoi (Buskins) was perhaps an attack on Theramenes, whose political fickleness had gained him the well-known epithet Kothornos (kappa 1909); cf. Bekker, Anecd. Gr. 100.1.
[3] *)apai/deutoi, alpha 2954.