Cleon (sculptor)

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

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]

  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.