Conon (mythographer)

{{Short description|Greek mythographer}}

Conon ({{langx|grc|Κόνων}}, gen.: Κόνωνος) was a Greek grammarian and mythographerMalcolm Brown (2004). The Narratives of Konon: Text, Translation and Commentary on the Diegeseis. {{ISBN|3-598-77712-4}} of the age of Augustus (who lived 63 BC – 14 AD), the author of a work titled {{lang|grc|Διηγήσεις}} (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 of the work was preserved in the Bibliotheca of Photius, the 9th-century patriarch of Constantinople.Photius I of Constantinople, Bibliotheca, [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_05bibliotheca.htm#186 Codex 186]. Translated by Brady Kiesling. Photius commends Conon's Attic style, and remarks that Nicolaus Damascenus borrowed much from him.Photius, Bibliotheca, [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/photius_05bibliotheca.htm#189 Cod. 189]. There are separate editions of this abstract by Gale,Histor. Poet. Script, p. 241, &c., Paris, 1675 by Teucher,Lips. 1794 and 1802. and Kanne.Göttingen 1798.

Dion ChrysostomOr. xviii. torn. i. p. 480. mentions a rhetorician of this name, who may possibly be identical.