Agnonides

4th century BC) was an ancient Athenian demagogue and sycophant, a contemporary of Theophrastus and Phocion.

[4] Agnonides then induced the Athenians to sentence Phocion to death as a traitor, for his role as one of the oligarchs of Athens, installed by Antipater, and for allowing the port of Piraeus to fall into the hands of Nicanor.

[5][6] On behalf of the Assembly, he travelled to Polysperchon to argue against leniency being shown to Phocion.

After Phocion was executed, the Athenians came to regret their conduct towards him, and put Agnonides to death to appease his manes.

[7] Agnonides was at times considered to have been the same person as the rhetorician named Agnon, but this identification is debated.