Bion of Proconnesus

Bion (Ancient Greek: Βίων) of Proconnesus was a writer of ancient Greece. He was a contemporary of "Pherecydes", often presumed to be the mythographer Pherecydes of Syros, which would therefore place him around 560 BCE. Some scholars disagree about which Pherecydes was meant.[1]

He is mentioned by Diogenes Laertius as the author of two works which he does not specify;[2] but we must infer from Clement of Alexandria, that one of these was an abridging of the work of the ancient historian and logographer, Cadmus of Miletus.[3] He wrote on the early history of Ionia.[1][4]

References

  1. 1 2 Jevons, Frank Byron (1892). A History of Greek Literature from the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes. Scribner. p. 299. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
  2. ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 4.58
  3. ↑ Clement of Alexandria, Stromata vi. p. 267
  4. ↑ Perry, Thomas Sergeant (1890). A History of Greek Literature. Vol. 36. H. Holt. p. 511. Retrieved 2026-07-18.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Bion (1)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 486.

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