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Cleobule

In Greek mythology, the name Cleobule, Cleoboule, Kleobule or Kleoboule or Cleobula refers to:Cleobule, daughter of Aeolus or Aeopolus, one of the possible mothers of Myrtilus by Hermes. Cleobule, wife of Aleus of Tegea, mother of Cepheus and Amphidamas. Cleobula, mother by Ares of Cycnus who was killed by Heracles. Cleobule, mother of Amphimachus by Cteatus instead of Theronice. Cleobule, mother of Leonteus by Coronus. Cleobule, daughter of Eurytus and by Tenthredon, possibly the mother of Prothous, leader of the Magnesians during the Trojan War. Otherwise, Eurymache was called the mother of the Prothous. Cleobule, mother of Phoenix by Amyntor. Otherwise, Hippodameia or Alcimede was called the mother). Cleobule had two other possible children by Amyntor, Asydameia and Crantor. Cleobule was jealous of Amyntor's love for his concubine, Clytie or Phthia, so she convinced her son Phoenix to sleep with her, but when Amyntor found out, he cursed Phoenix with sterility. Cleobule, the Boeotian mother of Leitus by Lacritus; alternately, mother of Arcesilaus by Alector (Alectryon). Otherwise, Leitus' mother was Polybule by Alector or he was an earth-born, thus a son of Gaea. Meanwhile, Arcesilaus' parents were Areilycus and Theobule. Cleobule, mother of the tragedian Euripides by Apollo, as stated by Hyginus. Whether this is an otherwise unknown legend or simply the result of corruption of the text is uncertain.

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In Greek mythology, the name Cleobule, Cleoboule, Kleobule or Kleoboule (Ancient Greek: Κλεοβούλη, Kleoboúlē) or Cleobula refers to:

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  1. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 157
  2. Scholia on Euripides, Orestes 990
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  4. 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.
  5. Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 569
  6. Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 626
  7. Prothoos' father Tenthredon was mentioned in the following sources: Apollodorus, Epitome 3.14; Homer, Iliad 2.756; Hyginus, Fabulae 97 & Eustathius on Homer, Iliad p. 338
  8. Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 635
  9. Tzetzes, Allegories of the Iliad Prologue 634
  10. Gantz, p. 618; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 421 (Gk text)
  11. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 33, Prologue 432, pp. 41, Prologue 524. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
  12. Gantz, p. 618. For Hippodamia, see the A scholia to Iliad 9.448 (cited by Gantz), for Alcimede see Palatine Anthology 3.3 (Paton, pp. 152–153).
  13. Apollodorus, 2.7.8
  14. Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.355–392
  15. Homer, Iliad 9.437-484
  16. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  17. Tzetzes, John (2015). Allegories of the Iliad. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 41, Prologue 534. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4.
  18. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis 259
  19. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  20. Hyginus, Fabulae 161
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