A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

4. A LACEDAEMONIAN, who built the military engines for Pericles in his war against Samos in B. C. 441. (Plut. Per. 27; Diod. 12.28; Schol. ad Aristoph. Acharn. 802.) There was a celebrated statue of this Artemon made by Polycletus. (Plin. Nat. 34.19.2.) Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 9.505) confounds him with Artemon of Clazomenae.