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From
2009 until
2022, this article claimed that Cleitagora was called a "female Homer"
. This claim was unsourced until 2020 (though
in 2017 I was able to provide inline citations for the rest of the article), when an editor
cited Paul Chrystal's Women in Ancient Greece for the claim. I am convinced that this is an instance of
citogenesis.
Chrystal's book says of Cleitagora: Cleitagora or Clitagora was a Spartan lyric poet referred to by Aristophanes in his Wasps and his lost play Danaids. She is also variously represented as a Thessalian, and a Lesbian; she was even called a 'female Homer.'
From 2014 to 2017, the year Chrystal's book was published, our article read: Cleitagora or Clitagora (Greek: Κλειταγόρας) was a Spartan lyric poet mentioned by Aristophanes in his Wasps and his lost play the Danaids. She is also variously represented as a Thessalian, and a Lesbian. She was called a "female Homer."
This is almost word for word the same. Given that Chrystal doesn't cite any ancient source for the claim, I can only assume that he blindly took it from Wikipedia.
Caeciliusinhorto-public (
talk) 10:26, 7 December 2022 (UTC)