Cleomenes of Rhegium

Map of Ancient Italy. Southern Part (Rhegium is in the toe of the boot)

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.

Athenaeus mentions one of his poems by name: