Cleomenes of Rhegium (Greek: Kλεoμένης Kleoménes; 5th-century BC) was a Greek dithyrambic poet, apparently from Rhegium in Magna Graecia.
Reputation According to Athenaeus, Cleomenes is censured by Chionides:
He is also censured by Aristophanes, according to the Scholiast on The Clouds:
Cleomenes seems to have been an erotic writer, since Epicrates mentions him (in his Anti-Lais, quoted by Athenaeus) in connexion with other such writers:
The allusions of other comedians to him fix his date in the latter part of the 5th-century BC.Smith 1867, p. 796.
Athenaeus mentions one of his poems by name:
References
Sources
Smith, Philip (1867). "Cleomenes, literary. 2.". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1: Abaeus–Dysponteus. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 796.
External links
Dyer, Robert, et al., eds. (2015). "Κυκλίων τε χορω̂ν ᾀσματοκάμπας". Suda On Line. Retrieved 8 May 2022. Smith, Andrew, ed. (2021). "Cleomenes – in ancient sources". Attalus. Retrieved 8 May 2022.