Cleobulus of lindos biography channels

Greek poet

Cleobulus (; Greek: Κλεόβουλος ὁ Λίνδιος, Kleoboulos ho Lindios; fl. 6th century BC^{[citation needed]}) was a Greek poet and a native of Lindos.

He is one of the Seven Sages of Greece.

Life

Cleobulus was the son of Evagoras and a citizen of Lindus in Rhodes.^[1]Clement of Alexandria called Cleobulus king of the Lindians,^[2] and Plutarch spoke of him as the tyrant.^[3] The letter quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in which Cleobulus invites Solon to Lindus as a democratic place of refuge from the tyrant Peisistratus in Athens, is undoubtedly a later forgery.^[4] Cleobulus is also said to have studied philosophy in Egypt.^[5] He had a daughter, Cleobulina, who found fame as a poet, composing riddles in hexameter verse.^[5] Cleobulus is said to have lived to the age of seventy,^[6] and to have been greatly distinguished for strength and beauty of person.^[5]

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