Cleon (sculptor)

Cleon (, 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.Paus, v. 17. § 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.Paus. vi. 1. § 2. He excelled in portrait-statuesPhilosophos, Plin. PI. N. xxxiv. 19, is to be taken as a general term, of which several athletic ones are mentioned by Pausanias.vi. 3. § 4, 8. § 3, 9. § 1, 10, fin.

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