Zenobia of Palmyra: History, Myth and the Neo-Classical Imagination by Rex Winsbury

Zenobia of Palmyra: History, Myth and the Neo-Classical Imagination

Rex Winsbury

200 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous challenging informative medium-paced
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Queen Zenobia of Palmyra in Syria was one of the great women of classical antiquity, a romantic if tragic heroine both to Roman authors and to Chaucer, Gibbon and the neo-classical artists of the 19th century. But both the romantic image of her as...

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