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Cleobulina (Κλεοβουλίνη) or Cleobuline (Flourished c. 550 BC Rhodes, ancient Greece) was an ancient Greek poet. Her father was Cleobulus, who was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. She wrote poetry in hexameter verse and was particularly skilled in writing riddles or enigmas.[1][2]
Aristotle quotes Cleobulina of Rhodes in both his Poetics and the Rhetoric.[3] She was sufficiently well-known to be satirized in a play by the comic dramatist Cratinus.[4]
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References
- "Cleobuline". Dinner Party database of notable women. Brooklyn Museum. March 21, 2007. http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/cleobuline.php. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- "Cleobulina of Rhodes 570BCE". Women Philosophers web site. 8 April 2009. http://www.women-philosophers.com/Cleobulina-of-Rhodes.html. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
- Menage, Gilles. The History of Women Philosophers. Trans. by Beatrice H. Zedler. (New York: University Press of America, 1984). ISBN 0-8191-4271-9
- Leon, Vicki. "Cleobulina," in Uppity Women of Ancient Greece. (San Luis Obispo: Tabula Rasa Press, 1989). ISBN 1-57324-010-9
- "Cleobulina of Rhodes". Ancient Women Philosophers. Mount St Mary College. http://faculty.msmc.edu/lindeman/cleobulina1.html. Retrieved 2009-09-06.
External links
- Cléobulina de Lindos Translations of some of her enigmas (in French) Accessed Sept 2009
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