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and mythographer of the age of

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(who lived 63 BC – 14 AD), the author of a work titled (Narrations), addressed to Archelaus Philopator, king of

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. It was a collection of fifty narratives relating to the mythical and heroic period, and especially the foundation of colonies. An

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of the work was preserved in the '' Bibliotheca'' of

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, the 9th-century patriarch of

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. Photius commends Conon's Attic style, and remarks that

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borrowed much from him. There are separate editions of this abstract by Gale, by Teucher, and Kanne. Dion ChrysostomOr. xviii. torn. i. p. 480. mentions a rhetorician of this name, who may possibly be identical.

Notes

Sources

Conon, Fifty Narrations
English translation by Brady Kiesling

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External links

English translation of the Narrations
by

John Brady Kiesling John Brady Kiesling is a former U.S. diplomat and the author of ''Diplomacy Lessons: Realism for an Unloved Superpower'' (Potomac Books, 2006) and the ToposText classics/archaeology mobile application. Diplomat An archaeologist/ancient historian ...

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