Konon (mythographer)
Konon was a Greek mythographer who lived around the birth of Christ.
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His work Diegeseis , consisting of fifty mythological stories, is mainly preserved in an excerpt from Photios from the Byzantine period (there is also a fragment on a papyrus from Oxyrhynchos ). According to Photios, Konon's vocabulary was characterized by atticism , the wording is described as pleasant, the expression as concise. The many antitheses and the moralizing tone are striking. Konon's sources were presumably mainly mythological manuals; his work was primarily intended to entertain the reader, but could also have been used as an example for speakers and poets. In addition to the collection of stories dedicated to the Cappadocian king Archelaos Patris , which dealt with rhetorical adaptations of founding stories, aitiologies (myths that describe the origin of individual things), love stories and various events, Konon apparently also wrote a work about Italy and a Herakleía .
expenditure
- Malcolm Kenneth Brown: The Narratives of Konon. Text, translation and commentary on the Diegeseis. Saur, Munich and Leipzig 2002. (Contributions to antiquity, 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.
literature
- Hans von Geisau : Konon. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, Col. 294 f.
- Edgar Martini : Konon 9 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 2, Stuttgart 1922, Sp. 1335-1338.
Web links
- Literature by and about Konon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Book Description (Library of Congress)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Konon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek mythographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |