Neobule
Ancient Greek woman
About Neobule
Neobule (, Neoboúlē, "New Decision" or "Ms. Fickle" ) was a girl addressed in the 7th-century BC Greek poetry of Archilochus. Archilochus claims to have been engaged to the girl before her father Lycambes ("Mr. Wolfy" These poems are generally agreed to be the origins of satire. Some modern scholars believe that Lycambes, Neobule, and her sisters were not actually the poet's contemporaries but stock characters from the iambic tradition; others hold that they are merely meaningful names applied to the figures from Archilochus's life.
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