Agathon (name)

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,[1] 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.[2] The name is a Westernized form of the more traditional name Agafon.[3]

Classical antiquity

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

References

Notes

  1. Superanskaya, pp. 22 and 34
  2. Toronto Slavic Quarterly. Елена Душечкина. "Мессианские тенденции в советской антропонимической практике 1920-х - 1930-х годов" (in Russian)
  3. Superanskaya, p. 34
  4. Diodorus Siculus, xix. 75
  5. Smith, William (1867), "Agathon (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 65
  6. Plutarch, de Fluv. p. 1156, e. 1159, a
  7. Stobaeus Serm. tit. 100. 10, ed. Gaisford
  8. Smith, William (1867), "Agathon (3)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 66
  9. Conciliorum Nova Collectio a Mansi, vol. xii. p. 189
  10. Christian, Albany James (1867), "Agathon (4)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 66

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