Alcon (classical history)

The name Alcon (/ˈælkɒn/; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκων) or Alco can refer to a number of people from classical history:

• Alcon the Molossian (6th century BC) suitor of Agariste of Sicyon.
• Alcon, a surgeon (vulnerum medicus) at Rome in the reign of Claudius, 41—54, who is said by Pliny to have been banished to Gaul, and to have been fined ten million sestertii.[1] After his return from banishment, he is said to have gained by his practice an equal sum within a few years, which, however, seems so enormous that there must probably be some mistake in the text. A surgeon of the same name, who is mentioned by Martial as a contemporary, may possibly be the same person.[2][3]
• Alcon, a sculptor mentioned by Pliny.[4] He was the author of a statue of Hercules at Thebes, made of iron, as symbolic of the god's endurance of labor.[5]

References

1. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xxix. 8
2. Martial, Epigrams xi. 84
3. Greenhill, William Alexander (1867). "Alcon". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 108. Archived from the original on 2008-06-04.
4. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia xxxiv. 14. s. 40
5. Mason, Charles Peter (1867). "Alcon". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 108. Archived from the original on 2008-06-04.

Source

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Alcon". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.