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Voyage of the Zeno brothers This page was last edited on 18 October 2023, at 21:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The Zeno brothers, Nicolò (c. 1326 – c. 1402) and Antonio (died c. 1403), were Italian noblemen from the Republic of Venice who lived during the 14th century. They came to prominence in 1558, when their descendant, Nicolò Zeno the Younger , published a map and a series of letters purporting to describe an exploration made by the brothers of ...
Zenopolis or Zenoupolis (Ancient Greek: Ζηνούπολις) or Zenonopolis (Ζηνωνόπολις, "city of Zeno) is a name given to at least three cities of the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity: Zenopolis (Isauria), near present-day Elmayurdu, Turkey; Zenopolis (Lycia), Turkey; Zenopolis (Phoenicia), near present-day Damascus, Syria
Zeno was a native of the Greek town of Kaunos in Caria in southwestern Asia Minor. He moved to the town of Philadelphia in Egypt, a busy market town that had been founded on the edge of the Faiyum by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in honour of his sister Arsinoe II. From the 3rd century BC until the 5th century CE, Philadelphia was a thriving ...
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Zeno of Rhodes (Ancient Greek: Ζήνων; born not later than 220 BC) was an ancient Greek politician and historian (FGrH 523). [1] Zeno mainly wrote about the history of Rhodes, and was a contemporary of Polybius. [2] Polybius made extensive use of Zeno's historical work, especially on the dealings Rhodes had with Lycia and ancient Rome. [3]
Zeno is the protagonist of a theatrical drama in Latin, called Zeno, composed c. 1641 by the Jesuit playwright Joseph Simons and performed in 1643 in Rome at the Jesuit English College. [57] An anonymous Greek drama is modelled on this Latin Zeno, belonging to the so-called Cretan Theatre.
Zeno was born to a Christian family of privilege and status in the region of Pontus around the year 339. [3] From an early age he devoted himself to the study of letters and sciences and quickly distinguished himself and became known to all, for the multitude of his virtues, his perfect education, his morals, his physique and his distinguished parents.