Conon

Family: Athenian · Role: commander at Naupactus · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 5

At Naupactus, Conon, commander of the Athenian squadron, reported to Demosthenes and Eurymedon that the twenty-five Corinthian ships opposite him were preparing to engage, while his own eighteen were no match for them. He asked for reinforcements, and Demosthenes and Eurymedon sent ten ships with him to strengthen the squadron.

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Life events

• Demosthenes and Eurymedon sent ten ships with Conon to reinforce the squadron at Naupactus.(Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 5 · 📍 Naupactus)
  • With: Demosthenes Eurymedon
  • “Demosthenes and Eurymedon, accordingly, sent ten of their best sailers with Conon to reinforce the squadron at Naupactus,”

Book 7 · Chapter 21 · Part 5

• with Demosthenes (Conon asked Demosthenes and Eurymedon for ships.) “Here, also, Conon came to them, the commander at Naupactus, with news that the twenty-five Corinthian ships stationed opposite to him, far from giving over the war, were meditating an engagement; and he therefore begged them to send him some ships, as his own eighteen were not a match for the enemy’s twenty-five.”
• with Eurymedon (Conon asked Demosthenes and Eurymedon for ships.) “Here, also, Conon came to them, the commander at Naupactus, with news that the twenty-five Corinthian ships stationed opposite to him, far from giving over the war, were meditating an engagement; and he therefore begged them to send him some ships, as his own eighteen were not a match for the enemy’s twenty-five.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.