Periclytus, a sculptor, who belonged to the best period and to one of the best schools of Greek art, but of whom scarcely any thing is known. He is only mentioned in a single passage of
Pausanias (v. 17. § 4), from which we learn that he was the disciple of
Polykleitos, and the teacher of
Antiphanes of Argos, who was the teacher of
Cleon of Sicyon
Cleon (; el, Κλέων ''Kleon'', ) was a tyrant of the ancient Greek city-state of Sicyon.Pausanias, ''Geography'2.8/ref> According to Plutarch, he was assassinated and Timocleidas and Cleinias
Cleinias ( grc, Κλεινίας), father of ...
. Since Polycleitus flourished about b. , and Antiphanes about b. , the date of Periclytus may be fixed at about 420 BC.
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5th-century BC Greek sculptors