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Zenon

Ζήνων

(Ζήνων), literary.

1. An historical writer, mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (7.35) as the author of a narrative of the expedition of Pyrrhus into Italy, and a brief history of the (first) Punic war (Ἡ Πύρρου στρατεία εἰς Ἰταλίαν καὶ Σικελίαν.--Ἐπιτομὴ τῶν πεπραγμένων Ῥωμαίοις τε καὶ Καρχηδονίοις). Zenon probably lived shortly after the first Punic war. (Voss. de Hist. Gr. p. 141.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.