Zenobia

Nathanael Andrade received his PhD in Greek and Roman history from the University of Michigan and has published extensively on the Roman and later Roman Near East along with other topics. He is the author of Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity: Networks and the Movement of Culture (Cambridge University Press, at press). He is now an associate professor in the Department of History at Binghamton University.

• ForwardAcknowledgementsAbbreviations Chapter 1: Zenobia's Likenesses Part I: Palmyra, Zenobia's City Chapter 2: Urban Landscape Chapter 3: Social Landscape Part II: Embryonic Star Chapter 4: Social World Chapter 5: Coming of Age Part III: Rising StarChapter 6: Marital Household Chapter 7: Widowhood Part IV: Shooting StarChapter 8: Dynasty Chapter 9: Civil War Epilogue: Fallen Star Chapter 10: Legacy and Likenesses Appendix 1: Palmyrene Monuments Mentioned Appendix 2: Brief and Simple Guide to Palmyrenean Aramaic Appendix 3: Inscriptions for Odainath's Household Bibliography

Of far greater consequence, especially for the educated public, are the appendices and bibliography: the destruction of monuments, the nature of Palmyrene Aramaic, original language version of inscriptions detailing Zenobia's household (Aramaic in transliteration). These and the bibliography illustrate the multinational and lengthy careers [of] those building upon intelligent assumptions in the recreation of an ancient site.