Cleon
Family: Sicyonian · Role: sculptor · First appears: Book 5 · Chapter 17
In Book 5, Chapter 17, Cleon of Sicyon is identified as a sculptor whose master was Antiphanes. By Book 6, his work is linked to statues of Dinolochus, Hysmon, Critodamus, Alcetus, and Lycinus, a native of Heræa who won in the race for boys.
In Book 10, Chapter 4, Cleon is mentioned in an account of a voyage from Gades, when he and his companions sailed from the island at the bidding of Hercules. The account also says that he believed Tityus and others were as large as tradition represented.
Relationship record
Book 5 · Chapter 17
- mentor: Antiphanes (sculptor, master of Cleon of Sicyon) “Cleon of Sicyon, whose master was Antiphanes”
Book 6 · Chapter 1
- with Dinolochus (Cleon made Dinolochus's statue) “and his statue is by Cleon of Sicyon.”
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- with Hysmon (interaction) “His statue is by Cleon”
- with Hysmon (interaction) “His statue is by Cleon”
Book 6 · Chapter 8
- with Critodamus (Cleon made Critodamus's statue.) “that of Critodamus by Cleon,”
Book 6 · Chapter 9
- with Alcetus (Cleon sculpted Alcetus's statue.) “His statue is by Cleon”
Book 6 · Chapter 10
- with Lycinus (Cleon made Lycinus's statue.) “And there is a statue of Lycinus, the native of Heræa who won in the race for boys, by Cleon”
- with Lycinus (Cleon made Lycinus's statue.) “And there is a statue of Lycinus, the native of Heræa who won in the race for boys, by Cleon,”
Book 10 · Chapter 4
- with Hercules (Hercules's bidding directed Cleon's voyage.) “when he was at Gades, and he and all his companions sailed from the island according to the bidding of Hercules”
- with Tityus (interaction) “and that he himself believed that Tityus and others were as large as tradition represented”
- with Hercules (interaction) “when he was at Gades, and he and all his companions sailed from the island according to the bidding of Hercules”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.