Agnon (Irish Legend)
People with the name of Hagnon or Agnon (in Greek: Ἅγνων) include: *Hagnon of Peparethus, ancient Greek athlete, victor in the stadion race of the 53rd Olympiad (568 BC) * Hagnon, son of Nikias, 5th century BC, Athenian general and statesman *Hagnon of Tarsus, 2nd century BC, ancient Greek rhetorician and philosopher *Shmuel Yosef Agnon Shmuel Yosef Agnon ( he, שמואל יוסף עגנון; July 17, 1888 – February 17, 1970) was one of the central figures of modern Hebrew literature. In Hebrew, he is known by the acronym Shai Agnon (). In English, his works are published und ...

Hagnon Of Peparethus
Hagnon of Peparethus was an ancient Greek athlete listed by Eusebius of Caesarea as a victor in the stadion race of the 53rd Olympiad (568 BC).Eusebius of Caesarea, ''Chronicle' He was the first winner from the Aegean Islands and the only winner from the Sporades. References See also Olympic winners of the Stadion race The following is a list of winners of the Stadion race at the Olympic Games from 776 BC to 225 AD. It is based on the list given by Eusebius of Caesarea using a compilation by Sextus Julius Africanus. The Stadion race was the first and most importa ... Ancient Olympic competitors 6th-century BC Greek people People from Skopelos {{Greece-athletics-bio-stub ...
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Hagnon, Son Of Nikias
Hagnon, son of Nikias ( grc-gre, ῞Αγνων ὁ Νικίου) was an Athenian general and statesman. In 437/6 BC, he led the settlers who founded the city of Amphipolis in Thrace; in the Peloponnesian War, he served as an Athenian general on several occasions, and was one of the signers of the Peace of Nicias and the alliance between Athens and Sparta. In 411 BC, during the oligarchic coup, he supported the oligarchy and was one of the ten commissioners ('' probouloi'') appointed to draw up a new constitution. Hagnon's first appearance in the historical records comes in 437/6 BC, when he led a group of Greek colonists to found a city at the mouth of the river Strymon. Two previous attempts to found an Athenian colony on this valuable location (the site was desirable both because of its strategic position on the trade routes between the Hellespont and mainland Greece and because it was the primary outlet for trade from the wealthy Strymon valley) had been defeated by hostile ...
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Hagnon Of Tarsus
Hagnon of Tarsus ( grc-gre, Ἅγνων, 2nd century BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, an Academic Skeptic philosopher, and a pupil of Carneades. Quintilian chides him for writing a book called ''Rhetorices accusatio'' (''Prosecution of Rhetoric'') in which he denied that rhetoric was an art. Athenaeus cites him for a curious piece of information that "among the Spartans it is custom for girls before their marriage to be treated like favorite boys (''paidikois'')" (i.e. sexually). Plutarch quotes him as the source of a story concerning an elephant which was being cheated of its food by its keeper: Hagnon tells a story of an elephant in Syria, that was bred up in a certain house, who observed that his keeper took away and defrauded him every day of half the measure of his barley; only that once, the master being present and looking on, the keeper poured out the whole measure; which was no sooner done, but the elephant, extending his proboscis, separated the barley and divided ...
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