Helicon
Ἑλικών
(Ἑλικών), the son of Acesas, of Salamis, in Cyprus, was a celebrated artist in weaving variegated garments and hangings. He made the war cloak (ἐπιπόρπαμα) which the Rhodians presented to Alexander the Great. (Plut. Alex. 32.) Plutarch's addition to his name of the words τοῦ παλαιοῦ, makes it probable that he lived about the time of Phidias, under whose direction we know that artists of his class (ποικιλται) wrought. (Plut. Per. 12.) The celebrated works of Helicon and his father are mentioned under ACESAS. (Müller, Archäol. d. Kunst. § 114, n. 1, and Nachträge, p. 706.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.