Conon (mythographer)

Conon was a Greek Mythograph, who lived for Christ's birth.

Work

Its composed of fifty mythological narratives work Diegeseis is obtained from the Byzantine period, especially in an extract of Photius ( in addition there are a fragment of a papyrus from Oxyrhynchus ). According to Photius Conon vocabulary was characterized attizistisch, the word leadership is described as pleasing, the expression as scarce. The many antitheses and the moralizing tone are striking. Conon sources were probably mainly mythological manuals; his work should the reader mainly entertain, but could have been used as an example for orators and poets. In addition to the Cappadocian King Archelaus Patris dedicated collection of stories, the rhetorical machining of foundation stories Aitiologien ( myths that describe the origin of individual things ) had, love stories and different events to content, Conon wrote apparently also a work on Italy and Heraclea.

Expenditure

  • Malcolm Kenneth Brown: The Narratives of Conon. Text, translation and commentary on the Diegeseis. Saur, Munich and Leipzig, 2002. ( Contributions to Archaeology, 163) ISBN 3-598-77712-4
  • Felix Jacoby: The fragments of the Greek historians. Part 1: Genealogy and mythography. Reprint with addenda and corrigenda. Brill, Leiden 1957, No. 26
Atticism Antithesis Morality Archelaus of Cappadocia Fragmente der griechischen Historiker Integrated Authority File
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