CONON, a renowned Athenian general and admiral who flourished about 390 B.C. (See ATTICA.) After his defeat by Lysander, he fled to Evagoras, king of Cyprus, and then put himself under the protection of Artaxerxes, king of Persia, with whose army he delivered Athens from the Lacedæmonian yoke and restored the walls. He afterwards (B.C. 394) defeated the Lacedæmonians in a naval encounter near Cnidus, and thus deprived them of the empire of the sea (which they had held ever since the taking of Athens), besides crippling their resources in other respects. According to one account, he is said to have been put to death by Teribazus, when on an embassy to the Persian court; but it seems more probable that he escaped to Cyprus, where he had considerable property, and that he died there a natural death B.C. 388.