This article is about the ancient Greek rhetorician; for the Hebrew nobel prize laureate writer, see Shmuel Yosef Agnon. Agnon was an ancient Greek Greek rhetorician, [1] who wrote a work against rhetoric, which Quintilian calls "Rhetorices accusatio ." [2] Some modern scholars have considered this Agnon to be the same man as the demagogue Agnonides, [3] the contempo­rary of Phocion, as the latter is in some manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos called Agnon. [4] But the manner in which Agnon is mentioned by Quin­tilian shows that he is a rhetorician, who lived at a much later period than the 4th century BC suggested by an identification with Agnonides. Whether however he is the same as the academic philosopher mentioned by Athenaeus is still a matter of some debate. [5]

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References

1. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
2. Quintilian, ii. 17. § 15
3. David Ruhnken, ''Hist. Crit. Orat. Graec.'' p. xc
4. Cornelius Nepos, ''Phoc.'' 3
5. Athenaeus, xiii. p. 602