Menon (disambiguation)
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Menon is an Ancient Greek name (also represented in English by its Latin form Meno) and may refer to:
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- Menon (Trojan)Menon (Trojan)Menon was a Trojan soldier killed by Leonteus in the Trojan War as detailed by Homer in the Iliad External Links...
, Trojan soldier in Trojan War - Menon (Phidias)Menon (Phidias)Menon was a workman working with Phidias, who was bribed by Pericles' enemies to inform against Phidias. According to Plutarch he sat himself in the market-place begging for protection if he were to bring charges against Phidias. He was subsequently provided with safety by the state and exempted...
, workman with Phidias - MenoMenoMeno is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. It attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such as justice or temperance. The first part of the work is written in the Socratic dialectical style and Meno is reduced to...
, a dialogue by Plato - Menon of Pharsalus (disambiguation), can refer to a number of Menons from an ancient Greek family in Pharsalus
- Menon I of PharsalusMenon I of PharsalusMenon was a prominent Pharsalian who assisted Athens, led by Cimon, in their battle against Eion around 476 BC. According to Demosthenes he himself contributed 12 talents of silver and equipped 300 cavalry from his own penestae for battle. He was awarded by the Athenians for his service...
, assisted Cimon at Battle of Eion - Menon II of PharsalusMenon II of PharsalusMenon commanded a faction of Pharsalians who were among the Thessalians who came to the assistance of the Athenians when they were being attacked by the Peloponnesian army in the first year of the Peloponnesian War, 431 BC. He, at the time, led a cavalry that was involved in a skirmish at Phrygia...
, led troops assisting Athens in the Peloponnesian War - Menon III of PharsalusMenon III of PharsalusMenon , son of Alexidemus, was a Thessalian, probably from Pharsalus and is famous for appearing in Plato's dialogue the Meno and for being among the generals killed by Artaxerxes after the Battle of Cunaxa as detailed in Xenophon's Anabasis.-Biography:Menon is reported, by both Xenophon and...
, the character of Plato's Meno dialogue - Menon IV of PharsalusMenon IV of PharsalusMenon was a citizen of Pharsalus in Thessaly, and a man of great influence and reputation, took a prominent part in the Lamian war, and commanded the Thessalian cavalry in the battle with the Macedonians, in which Leonnatus was slain...
, 4th century Greek general
- Menon I of Pharsalus
- Menon, 4th century BC Peripatetic writer on medicine: see Anonymus LondinensisAnonymus LondinensisAnonymus Londinensis is the name given to an anonymous Ancient Greek author of approximately the 1st century AD whose work On Medicine is partially preserved in a papyrus in the British Library...
Other uses
- Menon (Nair subcaste), is a title of dignity bestowed upon the Nairs of Cochin