Agathon (disambiguation)

The name Agathon (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγάθων) can refer to several people:

Classical antiquity

*Agathon, an Athenian tragic poet of the 5th century BC
*Agathon, son of the Macedonian Philotas, and the brother of Parmenion and Asander, was given as a hostage to Antigonus in 313 BC, by his brother Asander, satrap of Caria, but was taken back again by Asander in a few days. [Diodorus Siculus, xix. 75] Agathon had a son, named Asander, who is mentioned in a Greek inscription.Citation
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*Agathon of Samos, who wrote a work on Scythia and another on rivers. [Plutarch, "de Fluv." p. 1156, e. 1159, a] [Stobaeus "Serm." tit. 100. 10, ed. Gaisford] [Citation
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*Agathon, at first Reader, then Librarian, at Constantinople. In 680 AD, during his Readership, he was Notary or Reporter at the 6th General Council, which con­demned the Monothelite heresy. He sent copies of the acts, written by himself, to the five Patriarchates. In 712 AD he wrote a short treatise, still extant in Greek, on the attempts of Philippicus Bardanes to revive Monothelitism. ["Conciliorum Nova Collectio a Mansi", vol. xii. p. 189] [Citation
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first = Albany James
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Popular media

*Karl Agathon, a fictional character on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica TV series, portrayed by Tahmoh Penikett

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