CONON, son of Timotheus, Athenian general. After having held several commands during the Peloponnesian War (q.v.), he was chosen as one of the ten generals who superseded Alcibiades in 406 B.C. He was defeated at sea and shut up in Mytilene. The Athenian victory at Arginusae (q.v.) rescued him (406), and as he had not been present at the battle, he was not tried with the other generals, and was allowed to retain his command. In 405, however, the Athenian fleet was defeated at Aegospotami, and Conon with difficulty escaped to Cyprus. On the outbreak of the war between Sparta and the Persians (400) he obtained from Artaxerxes joint command with Pharnabazus of a Persian fleet. In 394 he defeated the Lacedaemonians near Cnidus, and thus de prived them of the empire of the sea. He expelled the Lacedaemo nian harmosts from most of the maritime towns of the Aegean, and restored the long walls and the fortifications of the Peiraeus. According to one account, he was put to death by Tiribazus, when on an embassy from Athens to the Persian court to counteract the intrigues of Sparta; but it seems more probable that he escaped to Cyprus and died there about 39o.