InGreek mythology, the nameCleoboea (Ancient Greek:Κλεόβοια,romanized: Kleóboia,lit. 'renowned cattle') refers to multiple women:
- Cleoboea, daughter ofCriasus andMelantho, sister ofPhorbas andEreuthalion.[1]
- Cleoboea, mother ofEurythemis. Her daughter was married to KingThestius ofPleuron inAetolia.[2] Cleoboea herself is otherwise unknown.
- Cleoboea, mother ofPhilonis byEosphoros. Philonis, in her turn, became the mother ofPhilammon byApollo.[3]
- Cleoboea, who was said to have been the first to have brought theorgies ofDemeter toThasos fromParos.Pausanias describes a painting which portrays her and Tellis, grandfather of the poetArchilochus, both as young people, on board the boat, with a chest in Cleoboea's hands which is supposed to contain some objects sacred to Demeter.[4]
- Cleoboea orPhilaechme, wife ofPhobius (a descendant ofNeleus) the king ofMiletus. She fell in love with the young man namedAntheus and tried to seduce him, but he rejected her advances, so she killed him.[5]
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edit- Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius,Love Romances translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Parthenius,Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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