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Agathon (Anc. Gr. Ἀγάθων) is a given name.




Russian name


In Russian, in 1924–1930, the name "Агато́н" (Agaton) was included into various Soviet calendars, which included the new and often artificially created names promoting the new Soviet realities and encouraging the break with the tradition of using the names in the Synodal Menologia. The name is a Westernized form of the more traditional name Agafon.




Classical antiquity


Agathon, an Athenian tragic poet of the 5th century BC
Plato's Form of The Good
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. Agathon had a son, named Asander, who is mentioned in a Greek inscription.
Agathon of Samos, who wrote a work on Scythia and another on rivers.
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.
Agathon, son of Priam and prince of Troy, is mentioned in the Iliad as being one of the last surviving princes.
Saint Agathon the Stylite
Agathon, one of the Desert Fathers who lived in Scetis, Lower Egypt
St Agathon




Fictional characters


Karl Agathon, a fictional character on the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica 2004 TV series
Agaton Sax, a fictional detective in the eponymous comedic detective novels written for children by Swedish author Nils-Olof Franzén




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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agathon". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
А. В. Суперанская (A. V. Superanskaya). "Словарь русских имён" (Dictionary of Russian Names). Издательство Эксмо. Москва, 2005. ISBN 5-699-14090-5

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