The first recorded strikes of workmen. Labourers on the estate of Apollonius lay down the law to Zenon. By Donn Philip Crane (1878-1944). Apollonius was the dioiketes or chief finance minister of Egypt during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (283-246BC). A great amount of information has survived about his public role, in the archive of papyri kept by his assistant Zenon. Zenon, son of Agreophon, was a public official in Ptolemaic Egypt around the 250s-230s BC.

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