Philotas (in Greek Φιλωτας; lived 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek dithyrambic poet and musician, the disciple of Philoxenus of Cythera; he is considered only worthy of notice as having once gained a victory over his great contemporary Timotheus of Miletus.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).