Conon
Family: Athenian · Role: military commander · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1
In Book 1, Chapter 1, after defeating the Lacedæmonian fleet off Cnidus, Conon erected a temple to Aphrodite. In Chapter 3, Evagoras secured the Phoenician triremes given to Conon by Artaxerxes, and statues of Conon and his son Timotheus stood near a portico.
By Book 3, Chapter 9, the Athenians’ main reason for refusing aid was that they had learned Conon, son of Timotheus, had gone to the great king. In Book 6, Chapter 3, Conon’s victory off Cnidus and Mount Dorium led the Ionians to change sides; statues of Conon and Timotheus were displayed at Samos and Ephesus. Later, when Greece was “already in pitiful plight,” Conon recovered it somewhat in the islands and maritime parts.
Relationship record
Life events
- Conon erected a temple to Aphrodite after defeating the Lacedæmonian fleet off Cnidus.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Cnidus)
- With: Aphrodite
- “And near the sea is a temple erected to Aphrodite by Conon, after his victory over the Lacedæmonian fleet off Cnidus in the peninsula of Caria.”
- Evagoras secured the Phoenician triremes that Artaxerxes had given to Conon.(Book 1 · Chapter 3)
- With: Evagoras Artaxerxes
- “Evagoras, the king of the Cyprians, who got the Phœnician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes”
- Conon’s victory caused the Ionians to change sides and display statues of Conon and Timotheus.(Book 6 · Chapter 3 · 📍 Samos)
- With: Timotheus
- “And when fortune veered round again, and Conon won the sea-fight off Cnidus and Mount Dorium, then the Ionians changed sides again, and you may see a brazen statue of Conon and Timotheus at Samos in the temple of Hera, and likewise at Ephesus in the temple of Artemis.”
- Conon recovered Greece somewhat in the islands and maritime parts.(Book 8 · Chapter 52)
- “Conon the son of Timotheus and Epaminondas the son of Polymnis recovered it somewhat, the former in the islands and maritime parts”
Book 1 · Chapter 1
- with Aphrodite (Conon dedicated a temple to Aphrodite.) “And near the sea is a temple erected to Aphrodite by Conon, after his victory over the Lacedæmonian fleet off Cnidus in the peninsula of Caria”
Book 1 · Chapter 3
- child: Timotheus “near the portico are statues of Conon and his son Timotheus”
- with Evagoras (Evagoras secured the triremes for Conon.) “Evagoras, the king of the Cyprians, who got the Phœnician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes”
- with Artaxerxes (Artaxerxes gave triremes to Conon.) “the Phœnician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes”
- patron: Artaxerxes “who got the Phœnician triremes given to Conon by King Artaxerxes”
Book 1 · Chapter 29
- child: Timotheus “Here too lie Conon and Timotheus, father and son, second only to Miltiades and Cimon in their brilliant feats.”
Book 3 · Chapter 9
- parent: Timotheus (father of Conon) (Timotheus is Conon's father.) “the Athenians urged, as pretext for refusing their aid, the strain of the Peloponnesian war and the city’s need of recovery from the plague: but their having learnt from envoys that Conon the son of Timotheus had gone to the great king, was their main motive.”
Book 6 · Chapter 3
- with Timotheus (Both were commemorated by a joint statue.) “you may see a brazen statue of Conon and Timotheus at Samos in the temple of Hera”
Book 8 · Chapter 52
- parent: Timotheus (father of Conon) “Conon the son of Timotheus”
- with Epaminondas (They jointly helped recover Greece.) “Conon the son of Timotheus and Epaminondas the son of Polymnis recovered it somewhat”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.