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Zadok, Jewish founder of the Sadducees, 536

Zaleucus, Greek lawgiver (fl. 660 B.C.), 32

Zama (battle of, 202 B.C.), 49, 53, 85, 91, 92, 105

Zebedee, father of apostles James and John (1st century), 563, 577

Zela, battle in 47 B.C., 188

Zeno, Greek Stoic philosopher (336?-264? B.C.), 154*, 196, 249, 304, 346, 421, 455, 514

Zenobia, Septimia, Queen of Palmyra (?-after 272), 454, 630, 633, 636*, 638, 669

Zenodorus, Greek sculptor (fl. 1st century), 342, 351, 473

Zenophila (in Meleager), 509

Zephyrinus, Roman Pope (ca. 198-ca. 218), 617

Zerubbabel, Hebrew prince (fl. 520 B.C.), 533

Zeugma, 512

Zeus, 61, 63, 353, 300, 487, 495-496;

Zeus Panhellenicos, 418;

Zeus the Olympian, 418

Zeus, 461

Zeus (Pheidias), 486

Zeuxis, Greek painter (fl. 430 B.C.), 351

Zion, 535

zodiac, 298

Zola, Emile, French novelist (1840-1902), 412

zoological gardens, 384

Zoroastrianism, 524-525, 529-530, 537, 540, 558, 595, 596, 600*, 606, 639, 654; see also Mithras

Zosimus, Greek historian (fl. 5th century), 663