Conon (, ''gen''.: Κόνωνος) was a Greek grammarian 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

Photius Photius I of Constantinople (, ''Phōtios''; 815 – 6 February 893), also spelled ''Photius''Fr. Justin Taylor, essay "Canon Law in the Age of the Fathers" (published in Jordan Hite, T.O.R., and Daniel J. Ward, O.S.B., "Readings, Cases, Mate ...

, the 9th-century patriarch of

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

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Sources

Conon, Fifty Narrations
English translation by Brady Kiesling

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English translation of the Narrations
by John Brady Kiesling fo
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{{Authority control 1st-century BC Greek writers Ancient Greek grammarians Ancient Greek mythographers Atticists (grammarians) Cappadocia (Roman province) Roman-era Athenians