Cleitagora
Cleitagora or Clitagora or Kleitagora (Template:Langx) was a lyric poet mentioned by Aristophanes in his Wasps and his lost play the Danaïdes;Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". a fragment of Cratinus also mentions her.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". A drinking song named "Cleitagora" is mentioned in Aristophanes' Lysistrata.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
According to a scholiast on LysistrataScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and the Suda[1] she was a Spartan. However, the scholiast on the Wasps says that Cleitagora was Thessalian,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and Hesychius says that she was from Lesbos.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Sarah Pomeroy argues that a Spartan origin is more likely. As Spartan women, unlike other Greek women, drank wine in their daily life rather than only at religious festivals, it makes sense to name a drinking song after a Spartan woman. If Cleitagora was Spartan, this would explain why the song "Cleitagora" was said to be more appropriate to sing than "Telamon" when the Spartan women are visiting in Lysistrata.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Nothing further is known of either Cleitagora or the song named after her.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
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