Aregon

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

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.

Aregon is known to have painted Artemis riding on a griffin.^[1]

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.^[2]

Notes

1. Strabo, Geographica vii. p.343
2. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 35.5

 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.