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Cargando... Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queenpor Pat Southern
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The ancient sources for the life and times of Zenobia are sparse. The surviving literary works that do exist are biased towards the Roman point of view, as are the sources for two other famous women who challenged Rome, Cleopatra and Boudica. Zenobia was acknowledged in her lifetime as beautiful and clever, gathering writers and poets, artists and philosophers around her at the Palmyrene court. 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 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This review is from: Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen (Kindle Edition)
Difficult to review as it depends on your requirements: for the serious student of Ancient Rome, this is a *5 work, meticulously researched and with a large bibliography. However, I would take issue with the cover blurb that calls it a 'lively account' and an 'engaging read'. As a casual reader, I found it quite a struggle to keep my concentration focussed.
Very little is known about Zenobia, and the author has to work with Roman writings (some contradictory, some of dubious veracity) and archaeological finds. Thus much is necessarily supposition, and we can never 'know' Zenobia, or definitively what her motivations were, for taking over large parts of Roman territory in 270 AD.
Nonetheless I've learned a great deal - but was glad to come to the end! (