Cleon (sculptor)

Not to be confused with Cleon of Sicyon, the tyrant.

Cleon (Greek: Κλέων Σικυώνιος) was an Ancient Greek sculptor of Sicyon. He was a pupil of Antiphanes, who had been taught by Periclytus, a follower of the great Polykleitos of Argos.^[1]

Cleon's age is determined by two bronze statues of Zeus at Olympia executed after the 98th Olympiad, and another of Deinolochus, after the 102nd Olympiad.^[2] He excelled in portrait-statues^[3] of which several athletic ones are mentioned by Pausanias.^[4]

References

↑ Paus, v. 17. § 1.
↑ Paus. vi. 1. § 2.
↑ Philosophos, Plin. PI. N. xxxiv. 19, is to be taken as a general term,
↑ vi. 3. § 4, 8. § 3, 9. § 1, 10, fin.

Sources

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz (1870). "Cleon". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. p. 798-99.