Conon
Conon (in Greek old Κόνων/ Kónôn ), Athenian Strategist born towards 444, died in 390.
He ensures several commands at the time of the Peloponnesian War, order a fleet in 413. After the disgrace of Alcibiade in 407 it took the general command of the Athenian fleet. Beaten in 405 with Aigos Potamos it gathers some vessels and flees with Cyprus near the king Évagoras. It succeeds in intriguing near the Perses and obtains the command of a fleet, with the satrap Pharnabaze. It gains the victory of Cnide over the fleet Spartan in 394, drives out Lacédémoniens of the Aegean Sea and takes Cythère.
It goes back to Athens as a triumphant victor (393) and raises the Long Walls destroyed by the Spartiates. The Athenians then set up a statue to him on the Agora, it is the first to be profited from this privilege since Harmodios and Aristogiton.
Two assumptions exist on its death. According to the first it would have been sent to Sardes in embassy at Pharnabaze which would have made it put in prison or it would have died (390). The second, more probable, is that he died in Cyprus of return at Évagoras, also in 390.
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