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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. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra.
List of contents
- Forward
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Zenobia's Likenesses
- Part I: Palmyra, Zenobia's City
- Chapter 2: Urban Landscape
- Chapter 3: Social Landscape
- Part II: Embryonic Star
- Chapter 4: Social World
- Chapter 5: Coming of Age
- Part III: Rising Star
- Chapter 6: Marital Household
- Chapter 7: Widowhood
- Part IV: Shooting Star
- Chapter 8: Dynasty
- Chapter 9: Civil War
- Epilogue: Fallen Star
- Chapter 10: Legacy and Likenesses
- Appendix 1: Palmyrene Monuments Mentioned
- Appendix 2: Brief and Simple Guide to Palmyrenean Aramaic
- Appendix 3: Inscriptions for Odainath's Household
- Bibliography
About the author
Nathanael Andrade received his PhD in Greek and Roman history from the University of Michigan and has published extensively on the Roman and later Roman Near East along with other topics. He is the author of Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity: Networks and the Movement of Culture (Cambridge University Press, at press). He is now an associate professor in the Department of History at Binghamton University.
Summary
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. This book situates Zenobia in the social, economic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra.
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Admirable and well-articulated ... Andrade's book, intended both for the specialist and the educated reader in general, analyses each of these events with objectivity and rigour, and presents a highly fitting approximation to the attractive figure of this singular woman. We should congratulate ourselves on its publication and congratulate the author on his work.
