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Micon

Micon the Younger of Athens, simply Micon or Mikon was an ancient Greek painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC. He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Stoa poikile, at Athens, with paintings of the Battle of Marathon and other battles. He also painted in the Anakeion at Athens. His daughter was the painter Timarete.

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Micon the Younger of Athens, simply Micon or Mikon (Ancient Greek: Μίκων) was an ancient Greek painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC.12 He was closely associated with Polygnotus of Thasos, in conjunction with whom he adorned the Stoa poikile ("Painted Portico"), at Athens, with paintings of the Battle of Marathon and other battles.3 He also painted in the Anakeion at Athens. His daughter was the painter Timarete.

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  1. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 33.160.2 https://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/2456/2529-2534
  2. Six, J. “Mikon’s Fourth Picture in the Theseion.” The Journal of Hellenic Studies 39 (1919): 130–43. https://doi.org/10.2307/624877.
  3. Howe, Thalia Phillies. “Sophokles, Mikon and the Argonauts.” American Journal of Archaeology 61, no. 4 (1957): 341–50. https://doi.org/10.2307/500602.