Pearl of the desert : a history of Palmyra /
Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against the Romans and expanded Palmyra's territory into what is now modern...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2022].
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| Series: | Women in antiquity.
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Table of Contents:
- The archeology and history of Palmyra
- Urban island or node in a network? The world of the living
- Family networks : the world of the dead
- Making-and breaking- ties : Palmyra, Rome, and Parthia
- Changing ties : Palmyra after Rome
- Cutting ties : Palmyra in a warzone
- Postludium: Palmyra--a tie in an ever-changing network