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concerning the Athenian admiral Conon? In either event you may have come to the right place. Should
you wish to sail the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey or among nearby islands of Greece, both
situated at the crossroads of history, and while sailing the crossroads of history learn of the
Peloponnesian War failures, and of the Corinthian War successes, of that giant of eastern Mediterranean
history, well then, you have surely come to the right place. Conan, no relation to Conon, is a crewed
charter catamaran on which to poke into coves surrounded by Greek blue and white or by Calabrian pine
descending the slopes above a plethora of indentations along the Turkish coast. Aboard Conan you may
even sail the Turkish and Greek Aegean at once. Yes, you and your family or you and your friends may
sail the Greek and Turkish Aegean aboard a crewed charter catamaran with accommodations for eight
guests. How about chartering such a catamaran to cruise Turkey's ancient Caria. From Caunos to Miletus
and among offshore Greek Dodecanese islands such as Rhodes where Conon, no relation to Conan, in 394 BC
replaced oligarchic leadership with a variety of democratic government (participation limited). Or how
about chartering such a catamaran to sail Turkey's ancient Ionia and among Greek Sporades islands.
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cruising the coast of Asia Minor and among Aegean islands exactly as did the Athenian
Conon, no relation to Conan, exactly as did Conon 2400 years ago. Conon was a Greek general of the sea
at the time. He was also a Greek of mixed credentials. Said to be from the family of Sophocles, he
first appeared to history in 413 BC as a Spartan-beleaguered commander at Naupactus in the Gulf of
Corinth, his flotilla of triremes requiring aid from those of Demosthenes. We next hear of him five
years later in command of Athenians at the Battle of Mytilene (Lesbos). Trapped in the harbor by the
Spartan Callicratidas, he lost 30 triremes there. And the battle. Three years later Athens lost its war
with Sparta at Aegospotami, only Conon's eight triremes of 179 present making good an escape. Conon
thereupon fled to Persian Cyprus. Reorganized by 394 BC, and with Athens again opposed to Sparta in the
Corinthian War, he and his Hellenic squadron complemented by a Phoenician flotilla under the Persian
Pharnabazus dealt Spartans under Peisander a stinging defeat off old Knidos, the modern Datca, and Conon,
no relation to Conan, returned to Athens a hero. There the Greeks erected two bronze statues of him in
the agora. Another bronze statue went up at Caunos, and still another at Loryma. That year, still 394 BC,
Conon replaced another general of the sea, Thrasybulus, as head of the Athenian state. We next hear of
Conon charged with assault and battery. Believing himself by virtue of his position immune from
prosecution he was nevertheless prosecuted in Athen's agora under the shadow of his own statues by none
other than Demosthenes, the same Demosthenes who had come to his rescue at Naupactus twenty-odd years
earlier. Convicted, Conon was exiled and returned to Persia. But the Great King soon tired of Conon's
belligerence and the last heard of him he was at war against Persia on the side of the Egyptian
Pharaoh Achoris. That was in 386 BC, and that's all they wrote! But Conan, no relation to Conon, can
take you to Caunos, to Loryma, to old Knidos, and to new Knidos to have a look around. In the
yard behind Coban Ali's restaurant at Loryma you might pose on what was likely a Conon statue-base.
The statue itself is gone, of course, bronze being of too much value to just lie around for 2400
years. Come do this aboard Conan, no relation to Conon, a fine charter catamaran sailing
Turkey and Greece. Contact Blue Cruise Yacht Charters today at