Chaon (Ancient Greek Χάων) was a Greek hero and the eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians who gave his name to Chaonia, a district in NW Epirus in Greece. Chaon is a village and commune in the Loir-et-Cher département of central France. Dan Chaon (born 1964 is an American author His best-selling first novel was You Remind Me of Me (2004 The Ancient Greek language is the historical stage in the development of the Hellenic language family spanning the Archaic (c The Greeks ( Greek: Έλληνες) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions The Chaonians ( Greek: grc Χάονες Chaones) were an ancient Greek tribe that inhabited the region of Epirus in the north-west of modern Chaonia or Chaon ( Greek Χαονία or Χάων was the name of the northwestern part of Epirus, the homeland of the Epirot tribe of the Chaonians Epirus (from Ionic Greek Ήπειρος - Ēpeiros, Doric Greek: Ἅπειρος - Apeiros, in Albanian Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία The stories are unclear as to whether he was the friend or the brother of Helenus, but in either case, he accompanied him to the court of Neoptolemus^[1]. Helenus was a Trojan soldier and prophet in the Trojan War. In Greek mythology, Helenus was the son of King Priam and Queen In Greek mythology, Neoptolemus (also Neoptólemos or Pyrrhus; Greek Νεοπτόλημος "New War" was the son of the warrior Achilles The stories concerning Chaon's death are as unclear as that of his relationship to Helenus. Chaon was either killed in a hunting accident or offered himself as a sacrifice to the gods during an epidemic, thus saving the lives of his countrymen. In either case, when Helenus became the ruler of the country, he named a part of the kingdom after Chaon. ^[2]

Tribe named by Chaon in ancient Epirus

Chaon was also a common Ancient Greek name ; ( Chaon son of Philoumenos Χᾶον Φιλουμένου^[3] and Chaon son of Eudoxos Χάων Εὐδόξου )^[4]

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