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Zenobia (240 – c. 274) was a 3rd-century Queen of the Palmyrene Empire in Roman Syria. She led a famous revolt against the Roman Empire. BY 269 she had conquered Egypt, and expelled the Roman prefect, which she ruled over until 274, when she was defeated and taken as a hostage to Rome by Emperor Aurelian.
Biography[edit]
- "Zenobia of Palmyra" from Historic Girls, 1911 by Elbridge Streeter Brooks
Poetry[edit]
- Alexander and Zenobia, 19th century poem by Anne Brontë
Reference[edit]
- "Zenobia, Septimia," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
- "Zenobia," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
- "Zenobia," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "Zenobia," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Zenobia," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- "Zenobia," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Zenobia," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
Homages[edit]
Zenobia has become a popular name for exotic or regal female characters in many other works.
- The Blithedale Romance, 1852 by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ethan Frome, 1911 by Edith Wharton
- The Hour of the Dragon, 1935-6 by Robert Ervin Howard