Cleon (,

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around 380 BCE) was an Ancient Greek sculptor of

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. He was a pupil of Antiphanes, who had been taught by Periclytus, a follower of the great Polykleitos of Argos. Cleon's age is determined by two bronze statues of

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at Olympia executed after the 98th

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, and another of Deinolochus, after the 102nd Olympiad. He excelled in portrait-statues of which several athletic ones are mentioned by Pausanias.vi. 3. § 4, 8. § 3, 9. § 1, 10, fin.

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* {{SmithDGRBM, author=LS, article=Cleon, volume=1, page=798-99 4th-century BC Greek sculptors Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Ancient Sicyonians