Agnon

:"This article is about the ancient Greek rhetorician; for the Hebrew nobel prize laureate writer, see Shmuel Yosef Agnon."Agnon was an ancient Greek Greek rhetorician,Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Agnon | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 74 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0083.html ] who wrote a work against rhetoric, which Quintilian calls "Rhetorices accusatio"." [Quintilian, ii. 17. § 15] Some modern scholars have considered this Agnon to be the same man as the demagogue Agnonides, [David Ruhnken, "Hist. Crit. Orat. Graec." p. xc] the contempo­rary of Phocion, as the latter is in some manuscripts of Cornelius Nepos called Agnon. [Cornelius Nepos, "Phoc." 3] But the manner in which Agnon is mentioned by Quin­tilian shows that he is a rhetorician, who lived at a much later period than the 4th century BC suggested by an identification with Agnonides. Whether however he is the same as the academic philosopher mentioned by Athenaeus is still a matter of some debate. [Athenaeus, xiii. p. 602]

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