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Author: Russ Wallace Publisher: Russ Wallace ISBN: 9780983128809 Category : Queens Languages : en Pages : 372
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Young Adult/Historical fiction with broad appeal. Born in 240 C.E., Zenobia escaped infanticide and became a deadly warrior. Beautiful and brilliant, she developed into a political and military genius, the likes of which the world had never seen in a woman. She would one day rule an empire and challenge Rome for the supremacy of her world. All true. Book 1 of the series relates the compelling saga of Zenobia's youth-a rare combination of action and education, history and horses, warriors and scholars, social issues and critical thinking, plus young romance and a thrilling horse race.
Author: Russ Wallace Publisher: Russ Wallace ISBN: 9780983128809 Category : Queens Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
Young Adult/Historical fiction with broad appeal. Born in 240 C.E., Zenobia escaped infanticide and became a deadly warrior. Beautiful and brilliant, she developed into a political and military genius, the likes of which the world had never seen in a woman. She would one day rule an empire and challenge Rome for the supremacy of her world. All true. Book 1 of the series relates the compelling saga of Zenobia's youth-a rare combination of action and education, history and horses, warriors and scholars, social issues and critical thinking, plus young romance and a thrilling horse race.
Author: Yāsamīn Zahrān Publisher: Stacey International Publishers ISBN: 9781906768386 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Yasmine Zahran first encountered Zenobia, the 3rd century Syrian Palmyrene queen who led the revolt against the Romans, in 1973 when she was working as a young archaeologist in the Levant. So began a lifetime's preoccupation with the woman who ruled over the Egypt she conquered and quashed all Roman rule in her wake. Although she was eventually defeated by the Emperor Aurelian in 274, Zenobia's life is a story of remarkable drama and achievement. In Zenobia: Between Reality and Legend, Yasmine Zahran explores the blurred line between the woman and the myth, and brings her world and time vividly and thrillingly to life through first-person narrative. This is history told with the energy of a novel, and the informed hand of a writer at her peak.
Author: Rex Winsbury Publisher: ISBN: 9781472541055 Category : Queens Languages : en Pages : 0
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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: Nathanael Andrade Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190638826 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
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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. 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: Pat Southern Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 144117351X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
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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: Nathanael J. Andrade Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0190638818 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 305
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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.
Author: Rex Winsbury Publisher: Bristol Classical Press ISBN: 9780715638538 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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Queen Zenobia of Palmyra in Syria was one of the great women of classical antiquity, a romantic if tragic heroine both to Roman authors and to Chaucer, Gibbon and the neo-classical artists of the 19th century. But both the romantic image of her as a beautiful, intellectual but chaste Arab queen of the desert, and the political perception of her as a regal woman whose feminine qualities lifted her above her misfortunes, do less than justice to Palmyra's most controversial ruler. There was a dark side to her that translates her from myth into reality, into being a ruler who for better or worse did what real rulers do and should be judged as such. This book constructs a coherent political and military narrative for Zenobia's life, confirming the depth of the 'third century crisis' of the Roman Empire, choosing between rival versions of what happened to Zenobia, and examining the myths that have surrounded her ever since.
Author: Russ Wallace
Author: Russ Wallace
Author: Russell D. Wallace
Author: Yāsamīn Zahrān
Author: Yasmine Zahran
Author: Rex Winsbury
Author: Nathanael Andrade
Author: Pat Southern
Author: Zenobia (Queen of Palmyra.)
Author: Nathanael J. Andrade
Author: Rex Winsbury