Cleon

(kle'on,) an A then i an demagogue, and a tanner by occupation, distinguished himself by his opposition to Pericles, after whose death he became a popular leader. After ma acring the Mitylenean prisoners a Athens, B. c. 427, he served with succe against the Spartans. Killed in an expedition against Thrace, 422 Ile is the subject of bitter sarcasm at the hands of Aris toph anes and Thucydides. [s. 196]