Aregon

Aregon (Ancient Greek: Ἀρήγων) was a painter from Corinth in ancient Greece, who, in conjunction with a "Cleanthes", ornamented the temple of Artemis Alpheionia at the mouth of the Alpheius river in Elis.

19th-century reconstruction of Aregon's painting of Artemis by Johann Georg Hiltensperger (fresco in Hermitage)

Aregon is known to have painted Artemis riding on a griffin.

If Cleanthes was the same artist who was mentioned by Pliny the Elder, Aregon must be placed at the very earliest period of the rise of art in Greece.

Notes

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Aregon". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 275.