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Cleobulina

Born in 550 BC / Died in 500 BC / Greece / Greek

Cleobulina poet from Greece was born in 550 Before Crist, had 50 years and died in 500 Before Crist. Poems were written in Ancient mainly in Greek language. Dominant movement is classicism.

Biography

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.

Aristotle quotes Cleobulina of Rhodes in both his Poetics and the Rhetoric. She was sufficiently well-known to be satirized in a play by the comic dramatist Cratinus.