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Artemon (Ancient Greek: Ἀρτέμων) was a Spartan engineer who built the military engines for Pericles in his war against Samos in 441 BCE.

There was a celebrated statue of this Artemon made by Polycletus.

The writer Servius the Grammarian in his commentaries on Virgil's Aeneid confuses this Artemon with the writer Artemon of Clazomenae. This confusion persists to the present day, and many writers will still call him "Artemon of Clazomenae".

References

1. Plutarch, Pericles 27
2. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 12.28
3. Scholiast on Aristophanes's The Acharnians 802
4. Whitehead, David (2021). "Siege Warfare". In Heckel, Waldemar; Naiden, FS; Garvin, E. Edward; Vanderspoel, John (eds.). A Companion to Greek Warfare. Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-119-43881-6. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
5. Pliny the Elder, Natural History 34.19.2

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Artemon (4)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 377.

• Ancient Greek engineers
• 5th-century BC Spartans
• Spartans of the Peloponnesian War