Empress Zenobia: Palmyra's Rebel Queen - Pat Southern - Google Books

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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…