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Cleisthenes (son of Sibyrtius)

Athenian delegate during the Peloponnesian War

Field	Value
name	Cleisthenes
native_name	Κλεισθένης
native_name_lang	grc
pronunciation
birth_date
death_date
citizenship	Athenian
occupation	Theoros (delegate)
known_for	Role during the Peloponnesian War
notable_works	Mentioned in Aristophanes' plays (Acharnians, Knights, The Frogs, The Clouds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae)
era	Classical Greece
relatives	Sibyrtius (Athenian) (possibly)Aristophanes calls him son of Sibyrtius, the operator of a wrestling school, but the connection is frequently taken to be a joke either at Cleisthenes's expense (playing on the unlikelihood of him engaging in a traditionally masculine sport) or at Sibyrtius's expense (suggesting a sexual encounter with Cleisthenes). () ()

Cleisthenes ( ; ), also Clisthenes or Kleisthenes, was a prominent Athenian delegate (theoros) during the Peloponnesian War (431 BC). The comedian Aristophanes used him frequently as the butt of jokes and as a character in his plays, ridiculing him for being effeminate and/or passive homosexual (kinaidos). He is notably mentioned in The Frogs, The Clouds, Lysistrata, and Thesmophoriazusae.

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Acharnians 118,The Clouds 354,Knights 1374,Thesmophoriazusae, 574.

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