# Micon

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5th-century BC Greek painter

For the wind-turbine manufacturer, see [NEG Micon](/source/NEG_Micon).

**Micon the Younger of Athens**, simply Micon or Mikon ([Ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greek_language): Μίκων) was an [ancient Greek](/source/Ancient_Greece) painter and sculptor from the middle of the 5th century BC.[1][2] He was closely associated with [Polygnotus](/source/Polygnotus) of [Thasos](/source/Thasos), in conjunction with whom he adorned the [Stoa poikile](/source/Stoa_poikile) ("Painted Portico"), at [Athens](/source/Athens), with paintings of the [Battle of Marathon](/source/Battle_of_Marathon) and other battles.[3] He also painted in the [Anakeion](/source/Anakeion) at Athens. His daughter was the painter [Timarete](/source/Timarete).

## References

- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the [public domain](/source/Public_domain): [Chisholm, Hugh](/source/Hugh_Chisholm), ed. (1911). "[Micon](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Micon)". *[Encyclopædia Britannica](/source/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition)* (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Pliny the Elder, *Natural History* 33.160.2 [https://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/2456/2529-2534](https://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/2456/2529-2534)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-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](https://doi.org/10.2307/624877).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-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](https://doi.org/10.2307/500602).

Authority control databases International VIAF GND Artists ULAN People Deutsche Biographie

v t e Ancient Greek painters Agatharchus Anaxandra Androcydes Antiphilus Aglaophon Antidotus Antorides Apelles Apollodorus Aregon Aristarete Aristides of Thebes Aristoclides Aristolaos Ariston Aristophon Artemon Athenion of Maroneia Asclepiodorus Cimon of Cleonae Ctesilochus Echion Euphranor Eupompus Galaton Heraclides Melanthius Micon Mnasitheus of Sicyon Nealkes Nicomachus of Thebes Pamphilus Panaenus Parrhasius Pausias Peiraikos Philoxenus of Eretria Polyidus Polygnotus Protogenes Thales Theon of Samos Timanthes Timanthes of Sicyon Timarete Timomachus Zeuxis

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