Zeno of Kaunos
Zeno (or Zenon, Greek: Ζήνων; 3rd century BC), son of Agreophon, was a native of the Greek town of Kaunos in lower Asia Minor. He moved to Philadelphia in Jordan and became a private secretary to Apollonius, the finance minister to Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Ptolemy III Euergetes.[1]
A cache of over 2,000 Greek and Demotic letters and documents written on papyri by Zeno were discovered in the 1900s and are referred to as the Zenon Archive or Zenon Papyri.[2]
A substantial part of the Zenon Papyri are now online and grammatically tagged at the Perseus Project hosted at Tufts University.[3]
Drimylus and Dionysius, two Greek employees under Zeno, were known for their involvement in selling women as sex-slaves in the areas that Zeno was visiting.[4]
References
- ↑ Who was Zenon Archived May 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Umich.edu, Snapshots of Daily Life
- ↑ P.Cair.Zen., Zenon Papyri, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire
- ↑ Jane, Taylor (2001). Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans. London, United Kingdom: I.B.Tauris. p. 38. Retrieved 8 July 2016.