Conon ( grc-gre, Κόνων, ''gen''.: Κόνωνος) was a Greek
grammarian
Grammarian may refer to:
* Alexandrine grammarians, philologists and textual scholars in Hellenistic Alexandria in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE
* Biblical grammarians, scholars who study the Bible and the Hebrew language
* Grammarian (Greco-Roman ...
and
mythographer of the age of
Augustus (who lived 63 BC – 14 AD), the author of a work titled (Narrations), addressed to
Archelaus Philopator, king of
Cappadocia. It was a collection of fifty narratives relating to the mythical and heroic period, and especially the foundation of colonies.
An
epitome
An epitome (; gr, ἐπιτομή, from ἐπιτέμνειν ''epitemnein'' meaning "to cut short") is a summary or miniature form, or an instance that represents a larger reality, also used as a synonym for embodiment. Epitomacy represents "t ...
of the work was preserved in the ''
Bibliotheca'' of
Photius
Photios I ( el, Φώτιος, ''Phōtios''; c. 810/820 – 6 February 893), also spelled PhotiusFr. Justin Taylor, essay "Canon Law in the Age of the Fathers" (published in Jordan Hite, T.O.R., & Daniel J. Ward, O.S.B., "Readings, Cases, Materia ...
, the 9th-century patriarch of
Constantinople. 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 Chrysostom[Or. xviii. torn. i. p. 480.] mentions a rhetorician of this name, who may possibly be identical.
Notes
Sources
Conon, Fifty NarrationsEnglish translation by Brady Kiesling
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External links
English translation of the Narrationsby
John Brady Kiesling fo
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