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Zenobia of Palmyra: History, Myth and the Neo-Classical Imagination
by Rex Winsbury.
Duckworth, 198 pp., £16.99, September 2010,978 0 7156 3853 8 Show More
by Rex Winsbury.
Duckworth, 198 pp., £16.99, September 2010,
“... perhaps unilaterally assumed – a series of titles that implied the delegation of extraordinary powers from the Emperor Gallienus himself. Such stylings were for the benefit of the Greeks Odaenathus ruled, but he began at the same time to employ Persian titles that spoke to a very different audience, to the local Syrians and Arabs who liked being ruled by a ... ”