Cleobis

Family: Argive · Role: son of an unnamed woman · First appears: Book 1 · §28–33

Life events

• Cleobis and Biton died in the temple after their mother prayed for the best gift for them.(Book 1 · §28–33)
  • With: Biton
  • “and after this prayer, when they had sacrificed and feasted, the young men lay down to sleep within the temple itself, and never rose again”
• The Argives made statues of Cleobis and Biton and dedicated them as offerings.(Book 1 · §28–33 · 📍 Delphi)
  • With: Biton
  • “And the Argives made statues in the likeness of them and dedicated them as offerings at Delphi”

Book 1 · §28–33

• with Hera (The brothers' mother was being taken to Hera's temple.) “There was a feast of Hera among the Argives and it was by all means necessary that their mother should be borne in a car to the temple.”

Also listed in Argive — Minor Figures

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