Hagnon

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Hagnon ( Greek Ἅγνων Hagnōn ), the son of Nikias was a politician and general in ancient Athens in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC. Chr.

He was one of the generals ( strategoi ) Athens during the punitive action against the renegade Samos in 440/439 BC. And took in the year 437/436 BC. Chr. Ennea Hodoi (Eneia, Aineios), where he founded a Greek colony under the new name Amphipolis .

At the beginning of the Peloponnesian War , Hagnon, who opposed Pericles politically , was killed in 431/430 ​​and 429/428 BC. Chr. Again elected strategist. During this successful phase for Athens, the Archidamian War, he was active in Potidaia and Thrace . 421 BC BC he conjured up the peace treaty of Nikias , which Athens concluded with Sparta and its allies.

In 413 BC Hagnon is mentioned again when, after the disastrous Sicilian expedition for Athens, he was a member of a state committee that was set up in view of the emergency. After that Hagnon is no longer mentioned, so that he may have been around the year 412 BC. Died.

Hagnon's son Theramenes also played an important role in Athens' politics in the years that followed.

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  1. ^ Thucydides , The Peloponnesian War , 4, 102. Not to be confused with the Attic politician Nicias .
  2. ↑ Thucydides 4, 102, 3.
  3. ↑ Plutarch , Perikles 32 ( English translation ).
  4. ↑ Thucydides 5:19 , 2.
  5. ↑ According to Plutarch, Nikias , 2, 1 ( English translation ), Aristotle is said to have been one of the most important Attic politicians of his time alongside Nikias and Thucydides, the son of Melesias , but this is probably a confusion with his son, cf. the Athenaion politeia 28 ( English translation ), which goes back to Aristotle or his school .
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SURNAME Hagnon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Athenian politician and military leader
DATE OF BIRTH 5th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 412 BC Chr.