Before his involvement in rhetoric, he was a renowned flutist ("most paradoxical") and for this reason, Isocrates called him "flute hole".
Later, he founded his own school in Athens, where historians Timaeus of Tauromenium and Neanthes of Cyzicus were his pupils.
[2] A funeral epigram of his for Lysias (from Pseudo-Plutarch)[3] and an excerpt of some work on a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus have been preserved.
This excerpt, reminiscent of the biblical story of Solomon, sparked interesting comments.
[4] Others argued that this is not certain because the story of Philiscus, like the corresponding one in the Bible, could well originate from an older Indian source.