Cleobis and Biton
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
sons of the Argive priestess · those youths
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Sons of the Argive priestess who died after pulling her cart to a shrine as an act of piety.
First are proclaimed Cleobis and Biton, sons of the Argive priestess.
Stromata
Brothers whose story, as told by Herodotus, is cited as praising death over life.
" And his story of Cleobis and Biton clearly intends nothing else than to blame generation and to praise death.