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Kleobis (Cleobis) and
Biton (Ancient Gr****: Κλέοβις, gen.: Κλεόβιδος; Βίτων, gen.: Βίτωνος) are two
Archaic Gr****
Kouros brothers from Argos,
whose stories...
- a
travelling singer,
Kleobis,
visits Keos to
perform at a wedding,
Simonides begs to be
taken on as an apprentice. This
Kleobis does, and they
leave together...
- the name of the god but with a mortal, for
example the 'Delphi Twins'
Kleobis and
Biton were
honoured for
their piety with
matching kouroi. The evolution...
- men,
Solon states that the second-happiest men ever were the
brothers Kleobis and Biton.
Dulce et
decorum est pro
patria mori Patsis, p. 391. Herodotus...
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ancient Gr****
writer of the ****enistic
period on war and
siege machines Kleobis and Biton, the two
Argive brothers given as
examples of a
happy life in...
- with Cléobis et
Biton conduisent le char de leur mère au
temple de
Junon (
Kleobis and
Biton dragging their mother's cart to the
temple of Juno). He was accepted...
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including the
earliest known notation of a melody, the
Charioteer of Delphi,
Kleobis and Biton,
golden treasures discovered beneath the
Sacred Way, the Sphinx...
- example, in twin
kouroi dedicated as
funerary monuments to hero
brothers Kleobis and
Biton in ca 570 BCE "the
slightly flexed elbows of the
figures seem...
- most
important sculptural form was the
kouros (See for
example Biton and
Kleobis). The kore was also common; Gr**** art did not
present female nudity (unless...
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Mortal Byblis and
Caunus -
Children of King
Miletus and
Tragasia or Cyanee.
Kleobis and
Biton - Sons of a Hera
priestess in Argos.
Crisus and
Panopeus - Sons...
