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Konon's collection of fifty mythical "Narratives" "(Diegeseis),"
which he dedicated to King Archelaos Philopatris of Cappadocia (36
B.C.-A.D. 17), is one of the most interesting mythographical works,
not least because of the great variety of the material. It has also
been one of the most neglected, in part because the work has not
survived in its original form but in the summary of Photios, and
also in part because it is the sole extant mythographic collection
that was not organized around a particular theme, such as the
better-known works of Parthenios and Antoninus Liberalis. Each
narrative is set in a specific locality. Although several mythical
categories are represented, foundation legends "(ktiseis)" and cult
and local aetiologies predominate. Konon records versions of myths
that depart from the standard tellings, as well as myths otherwise
unattested.
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