Person
Cleon
Athenian politician and general
Cleon (died 422 BCE) is an Athenian statesman and a strategos during the Peloponnesian War.
He is the first prominent representative of the commercial class in Athenian politics, although he is an aristocrat himself.
Contemporaries Thucydides and Aristophanes represented him as a warmonger and a demagogue; modern historians provide a more balanced view.