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:''This article is about an Egyptian secretary from the [[3rd century BC]]. For other uses of the name, see [[Zenon (disambiguation)]]''.
'''Zenon''', son of ''Agreophon'', was a native of the Greek town of [[Kaunos|Caunus]] in lower [[Anatolia|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]].
A cache of over 2,000 [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] and [[Demotic (Egyptian)|Demotic]] letters and documents written on [[Papyrus|papyri]] by Zenon were discovered in the 1900s and are referred to as the ''Zenon Archive'' or ''Zenon Papyri''.
==External links==
* [http://images.umdl.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?rgn1=apis_conn;op2=And;rgn2=ic_all;op3=And;rgn3=ic_all;c=apis;q1=Zenon%20archive;back=back1160694989;size=50;start=1;type=boolean;view=thumbnail Zenon Archive at University of Michigan]
* [http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/archives.html Zenon Archive at Duke University]
* [http://www.lib.umich.edu/pap/snapshots/Zenon%20Archive/Zenon1.html Zenon Archive summary]
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28194110%2947%3A1%3C64%3AEBAZOC%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H&size=LARGE Ephraim Beanland and Zenon of Caunus]
==Common misspellings==
* [[Xenon (disambiguation)]]
* [[Zeno]]
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