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Zenobia : shooting star of Palmyra / Nathanael J. Andrade.
LIBRA DS99.P17 A54 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andrade, Nathanael J., author.
- Series:
- Women in antiquity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra.
- Zenobia.
- Queens--Syria--Tadmur--Biography.
- Queens.
- Tadmur (Syria)--History.
- Tadmur (Syria).
- Rome--History--Aurelian, 270-275.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- History.
- Syria--Tadmur.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 284 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Zenobia's likenesses
- Palmyra, Zenobia's city
- Urban landscape
- Social landscape
- Embryonic star
- Social world
- Coming of age
- Rising star
- Marital household
- Widowhood
- Shooting star
- Dynasty
- Civil war
- Epilogue: fallen star
- Legacy and likenesses
- Appendix 1. Palmyrene monuments mentioned
- Appendix 2. Brief and simple guide to Palmyrenean Aramaic
- Appendix 3. Inscriptions for Odainath's household.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Andrade, Nathanael J. Zenobia.
- ISBN:
- 9780190638818
- 0190638818
- OCLC:
- 1031409889
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