This article is about an Egyptian secretary from the 3rd century BC. For other uses of the name, see Zenon (disambiguation).
For the element, see Xenon.
Zenon, son of Agreophon, was a native of the Greek town of Caunus in lower Asia Minor. He moved to Philadelphia in Egypt and became a private secretary to Apollonius, the finance minister to Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes during the 3rd century BC.[1]
A cache of over 2,000 Greek and Demotic letters and documents written on papyri by Zenon were discovered in the 1900s and are referred to as the Zenon Archive or Zenon Papyri.[2]
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References
- ^ Who was Zenon
- ^ Umich.edu, Snapshots of Daily Life
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