Cleoboea, who was said to have been the first to have brought the
orgies of
Demeter to
Thasos from
Paros.
Pausanias describes a painting which portrays her and Tellis, grandfather of the poet
Archilochus, 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 or
Philaechme, wife of
Phobius (son of
Hippocles and a descendant of
Neleus). Her husband ruled over
Miletus. A noble young man named
Antheus was sent to Phobius from
Halicarnassus as hostage. He was so handsome that Cleoboea immediately fell in love with the young man and tried to seduce him, but he rejected her advances. Her passion then took an evil turn and she plotted vengeance on him. She chased a tame partridge (or threw a pot of gold) down a deep well and asked Antheus to fetch it out for her. When he was inside, she pushed a large stone down the well and killed him. Soon after that, overcome with remorse, she hanged herself.[5]
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.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
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Cleoboea, who was said to have been the first to have brought the
orgies of
Demeter to
Thasos from
Paros.
Pausanias describes a painting which portrays her and Tellis, grandfather of the poet
Archilochus, 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 or
Philaechme, wife of
Phobius (son of
Hippocles and a descendant of
Neleus). Her husband ruled over
Miletus. A noble young man named
Antheus was sent to Phobius from
Halicarnassus as hostage. He was so handsome that Cleoboea immediately fell in love with the young man and tried to seduce him, but he rejected her advances. Her passion then took an evil turn and she plotted vengeance on him. She chased a tame partridge (or threw a pot of gold) down a deep well and asked Antheus to fetch it out for her. When he was inside, she pushed a large stone down the well and killed him. Soon after that, overcome with remorse, she hanged herself.[5]
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.
This article includes a list of Greek mythological figures with the same or similar names. If an
internal link for a specific Greek mythology article referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended Greek mythology article, if one exists.