Cleobule
In Greek mythology, the name Cleobule (Ancient Greek: Κλεοβούλη, Kleovoúlē) or Cleobula refers to:
- Cleobule, wife of Aleus of Tegea, mother of Cepheus and Amphidamas.[1]
- Cleobule, mother of Leitus by Lacritus;[2] alternately, mother of Arcesilaus by Alector (Alectryon.)[3]
- Cleobule, daughter of Aeolus or Aeopolus, one of the possible mothers of Myrtilus by Hermes.[4][5]
- Cleobule, mother of Phoenix by Amyntor.[6]
- Cleobule, mother of Leonteus by Coronus.[7]
- Cleobule, daughter of Eurytus and possibly the mother of Prothous by Tenthredon.[8]
- Cleobule, in one source, mother of Amphimachus by Cteatus[9] instead of Theronice.
- Cleobule, mother of the tragedian Euripides by Apollo, as stated by Hyginus.[10] Whether this is an otherwise unknown legend or simply the result of corruption of the text is uncertain.
- Cleobula, mother by Ares of Cycnus who was killed by Heracles.[11]
References
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
- ^ Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories, Prologue, 534
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron 157
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Orestes, 990
- ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron 421
- ^ Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories, Prologue, 626
- ^ Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories, Prologue, 635
- ^ Tzetzes, Homeric Allegories, Prologue, 569
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 161
- ^ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 70.
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