Cleolla

Cleolla appears only within genealogical accounts of the house of Pelops. The most commonly known tradition makes Agamemnon and Menelaus sons of Atreus and Aerope, but alternative accounts recorded by later grammarians and scholiasts place Cleolla in different roles. John Tzetzes (citing Hesiod, Aeschylus, and others) reports a tradition in which Cleolla, daughter of Dias (son of Pelops), by Pleisthenes (son of Atreus and Aerope) is the mother of Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia. A scholion on Euripides' Orestes (line 4) reports another variant in which Cleolla married her uncle Atreus and by him was the mother of Pleisthenes, who in turn fathered Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia (by Eriphyle). These competing placements make her a genealogical link used to reconcile or present alternative ancestries for the Atreidai.

Primary sources provide no physical description or iconography for Cleolla; she is attested only in lists and genealogical narratives (patronymics and marital connections). Because she is preserved in scholia and compendia rather than narrative poems describing deeds or appearance, there is no evidence of a consistent visual or descriptive portrayal.

No supernatural powers or special abilities are attributed to Cleolla in the cited sources. Her role is social and familial: she functions as daughter, wife, mother, or grandmother within variant genealogical schemes. Later mythographers and commentators employ her placement to reconcile or present alternative traditions concerning the descent of prominent epic figures.