Athenion

Athenion or Athenio is a personal name used in ancient Greece. In history it may refer to:

• Athenion of Maroneia, 4th-century BC Thracian painter
• Athenion of Araphen, an otherwise unknown Athenian man who served as presbys in 383 BC
• Athenion, an otherwise unknown mythographer referred to in the scholia on Apollonius of Rhodes and the Iliad of Homer
• Athenion, an otherwise unknown artist of the 2nd century BCE who was the creator of a renowned sardonyx cameo known as Zeus and the Giants, that currently resides in the collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Naples
• Athenion (general), 1st-century BC commander employed by Cleopatra
• Athenion, a peripatetic philosopher and failed revolutionary often confused with Aristion
• Athenion of Cilicia, leader in the Second Servile War (104–100 BC)
• Athenion (actor), 1st century BCE
• Athenion (comic poet), comic poet
• Athenion (physician), physician who lived somewhere between 300 BCE and 100 CE

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