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Zenobia Antoninianus coin reporting her title, Augusta ( honorific ) | Augusta and showing her diademed and draped bust on a crescent with the reverse showing a standing figure of Juno ( mythology ) | Ivno Regina, holding a patera in her right hand, a sceptre in her left, a peacock at her feet, and a brilliant star to the right
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File: Denarius-Zenobia-s3290. jpg | Zenobia coin reporting her title as queen of Egypt ( Augusta ), and showing her diademed and draped bust on a crescent.
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Sources also describe Zenobia as carrying herself like a man, riding, hunting and drinking on occasion with her officers.
Zenobia conquered new territories and increased the Palmyrene Empire in the memory of her husband and as a legacy to her son.
In 269 Zenobia, her army, and the Palmyrene General Zabdas violently conquered Egypt with help from their Egyptian ally, Timagenes, and his army.
Zenobia, with her large army, made expeditions and conquered Anatolia as far as Ancyra or Ankara and Chalcedon, followed by Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon.
Zenobia was unable to remove her treasury at Emesa before Aurelian successfully entered and besieged the city.
Zenobia and her son escaped Emesa by camel with help from the Sassanids, but they were captured on the Euphrates River by Aurelian ’ s horsemen.
The happiest narrative, though, relates that Aurelian, impressed by her beauty and dignity and out of a desire for clemency, freed Zenobia and granted her an elegant villa in Tibur ( modern Tivoli, Italy ).
* Queen Zenobia conquers Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt, giving her control of Rome's grain supply.
The historian Timothy Barnes has suggested that Constantius, while serving under Emperor Aurelian, could have met her while stationed in Asia Minor for the campaign against Zenobia.
In 272, the city was seized by Zenobia, the queen of the Palmyrene Empire, following her abortive attempt to take Antioch from Emperor Aurelian.
Zenobia and title
This mutual recognition is testified by early coins minted under Vaballathus, in which Aurelian is portraited with the title augustus ; however, the relationship between the two empires deteriorated and Aurelian disappeared from his coins, while Zenobia and Vabalathus and adopted the titles of augusta and augustus respectively.
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, took the title Augusta when she took Egypt from the Romans and declared herself Queen of Egypt.
Zenobia and Augusta
An obscure passage in the Historia Augusta life of Gallienus states Gallienus had sent an army under Heraclianus to the east that had been annihilated by Zenobia.
According to Imperially biased Historia Augusta, Maeonius killed Odaenathus and his son Hairan during a celebration, because of a conspiracy organized by Zenobia, second wife of Odaenathus, who wanted their son Vaballathus to succeed Odaenathus instead of Hairan ( who was the son of Odaenathus by another woman ).
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Image: Paul Baudry-Zenobia found by the shepherds on the on the Banks of the Araks River, c 1848. gif | Zenobia Found
Zenobia and on
Old Mill Spring, also known as Sunken Gardens Spring or Zenobia Spring, is located on the northeastern side of Barton Springs Pool.
However, as late as 272 AD, Aurelian's army, completely composed of light cavalry, defeated Zenobia at the Battle of Immae, proving the continuing importance of mobility on the battlefield.
In 1823 Lieutenant John Lihou, then Master of HMS Zenobia, was on passage from Manila to South America and chose a route through Torres Strait.
When Odaenathus was assassinated by his nephew Maconius, his wife Septimia Zenobia took power, ruling Palmyra on the behalf of her son, Vabalathus.
There they discuss women's rights, and Zenobia and Hollingsworth agree, against Coverdale, on a more misogynistic point of view.
He is rumored to have a relationship with Zenobia partway through the novel, and they plan on building a cottage together.
She becomes progressively more open and less frail throughout the novel and develops a strong attachment to Hollingsworth on top of her sisterly affections for Zenobia.
Parts of the book indeed seem to rely on, to create, a stream-of-consciousness narration " Coverdale dreams reveal his discovery and continued repression of his sexual desire of Zenobia.
It seems to have been on that occasion that he became known to queen Zenobia of Palmyra, who, being a woman of great talent, and fond of the arts and literature, made him her teacher of Greek literature.
After his death ( 266-267 ), Zenobia succeeded to his position and practically governed Palmyra on behalf of the young Vaballathus.
When Odaenathus was assassinated by his nephew Maconius, his wife Septimia Zenobia took power, ruling Palmyra on the behalf of her son, Vabalathus.
* The discovery of the injured and unconscious Zenobia on the riverbank is the subject of classical paintings by Bouguereau, Paul Baudry and Nicolas Poussin.
Radamisto ( HWV 12 ) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto by Nicola Francesco Haym, based on L ' amor tirannico, o Zenobia by Domenico Lalli and Zenobia by Matteo Noris.
He studied under Michel Martin Drolling and carried off the Prix de Rome in 1850 by his picture of Zenobia found on the banks of the Araxes.
But a spell is placed on Kassim by their evil stepmother, Zenobia ( Margaret Whiting ), which turns him into a baboon ( one of Harryhausen's stop-motion creations ) just as he was going to be crowned caliph.
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