A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

1. A sculptor of Sicyon, a pupil of Antiphanes, who had been taught by Pericletus, a follower of the great Polycletus of Argos. (Paus. 5.17.1.) Cleon's age is determined by two bronze statues of Zeus at Olympia executed after Ol. 98, and another of Deinolochus, after Ol. 102. (Paus. 6.1.2.) He excelled in portrait-statues (Philosophos, Plin. Nat. 34.19, is to be taken as a general term), of which several athletic ones are mentioned by Pausanias. (6.3.4, 8.3, 9.1, 10, fin.)