Cleon ( el, Κλέων Σικυώνιος,
fl.
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around 380 BCE) was an Ancient Greek sculptor of
Sicyon
Sicyon (; el, Σικυών; ''gen''.: Σικυῶνος) or Sikyon was an ancient Greek city state situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day regional unit of Corinthia. An ancient mona ...
. He was a pupil of
Antiphanes, who had been taught by
Periclytus, a follower of the great
Polykleitos of
Argos.
Cleon's age is determined by two bronze statues of
Zeus at
Olympia
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executed after the 98th
Olympiad, and another of
Deinolochus, after the 102nd Olympiad. He excelled in portrait-statues of which several athletic ones are mentioned by
Pausanias.
[vi. 3. § 4, 8. § 3, 9. § 1, 10, fin.]
References
Sources
* {{SmithDGRBM, author=LS, article=Cleon, volume=1, page=798-99
4th-century BC Greek sculptors
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Ancient Sicyonians