Zenobia Of Palmyra
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Author | : Rex Winsbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Queens |
ISBN | : 9781472541055 |
Preface -- Map -- 1. Inventing Zenobias: pen, brush and chisel -- 2. Zenobia - 'a brigand or, more accurately, a woman' -- 3. Bride of the desert: deliberately inventing Palmyra -- 4. Persia resurgent: the crisis of the third century -- 5. Just another usurper? The political legacy of the first Mr Zenobia -- 6. Arms and the woman: Zenobia goes to war -- 7. The French connection: guardians of the Rhine -- 8. Warrior and showman: the 'puzzling' emperor Aurelian -- 9. Showdown: Aurelian versus Zenobia's cooking-pot men -- 10. The end of the affair: golden chains and silver statue -- 11. Re-assessing Zenobia: 'a celebrated female sovereign' -- Appendix A. Odenathus' (alleged) titles: what did they mean? -- Appendix B. The Zenobia-Aurelian coalition theory and P.Wisc. 1.2 -- Notes -- Bibliography and abbreviations -- Index.
Author | : Pat Southern |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2008-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1441142487 |
The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse, and the surviving literary works are biased towards the Roman point of view, much as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica. In Empress Zenobia, Pat Southern seeks to tell the other side of the legendary 3rd century queen's place in history. As queen of Palmyra (present-day Syria), Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful and clever, gathering round her at the Palmyrene court writers and poets, artists and philosophers. It was said that Zenobia claimed descent from Cleopatra, which cannot be true but is indicative of how she saw herself and how she intended to be seen by others at home and abroad. This lively narrative explores the legendary queen and charts the progression of her unequivocal declaration, not only of independence from Rome, but of supremacy. Initially, Zenobia acknowledged the suzerainty of the Roman Emperors, but finally began to call herself Augusta and her son Vaballathus Augustus. There could be no clearer challenge to the authority of Rome in the east, drawing the Emperor Aurelian to the final battles and the submission of Palmyra in AD 272. Zenobia's story has inspired many melodramatic fictions but few factual volumes of any authority have been published. Pat Southern's book is a lively account that is both up to date and authoritative, as well as thoroughly engaging.
Author | : Richard Stoneman |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472083152 |
The rebellion of the dazzling Arab queen Zenobia against the fist of Roman domination
Author | : Nathanael Andrade |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2018-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190638826 |
Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and material culture at Palmyra enable us to know about women and the practice of gender there, and thus the world that Zenobia navigated. It reflects on her clothes, house, hygiene, property owning, gestures, religious practices, funerary practices, education, languages, social identities, marriage, and experiences motherhood, along with her meteoric rise to prominence and civil war. It also ponders Zenobia's legacy in light of the contemporary human tragedy in Syria.
Author | : Danuta Deeb |
Publisher | : First Edition Design Pub. |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2017-02-21 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1506902200 |
Author | : William Ware |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Tadmur (Syria) |
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Author | : JD Smith |
Publisher | : Quinn Publications |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0957616449 |
My name is Zabdas: once a slave; now a warrior, grandfather and servant. I call Syria home. I shall tell you the story of my Zenobia: Warrior Queen of Palmyra, Protector of the East, Conqueror of Desert Lands … The Roman Empire is close to collapse. Odenathus of Palmyra holds the Syrian frontier and its vital trade routes against Persian invasion. A client king in a forgotten land, starved of reinforcements, Odenathus calls upon an old friend, Julius, to face an older enemy: the Tanukh. Julius believes Syria should break free of Rome and declare independence. But his daughter’s beliefs are stronger still. Zenobia is determined to realise her father’s dream. And turn traitor to Rome ...
Author | : Haley Elizabeth Garwood |
Publisher | : The Writers Block, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2005-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780965972130 |
This fourth book in Garwood's Warrior Queen Series is the story of a third century Syrian queen who fights the Romans. After the Romans assassinate her husband, she marches her army against an ally turned enemy.
Author | : Libbie Hawker |
Publisher | : Running Rabbit Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
When Zenobia takes control of her own fate, will the gods punish her audacity? Zenobia, the proud daughter of a Syrian sheikh, refuses to marry against her will. She won’t submit to a lifetime of subservience. When her father dies, she sets out on her own, pursuing the power she believes to be her birthright, dreaming of the Roman Empire’s downfall and her ascendance to the throne. Defying her family, Zenobia arranges her own marriage to the most influential man in the city of Palmyra. But their union is anything but peaceful―his other wife begrudges the marriage and the birth of Zenobia’s son, and Zenobia finds herself ever more drawn to her guardsman, Zabdas. As war breaks out, she’s faced with terrible choices. From the decadent halls of Rome to the golden sands of Egypt, Zenobia fights for power, for love, and for her son. But will her hubris draw the wrath of the gods? Will she learn a “woman’s place,” or can she finally stake her claim as Empress of the East? This book was previously published by Lake Union Publishing, from 2015 - 2022.
Author | : William Ware |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 1859 |
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