Cleon (sculptor)

Cleon (Greek: Κλέων Σικυώνιος, fl. around 380 BCE) 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

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

Sources

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