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Zenobia
Zenobia meaning
A female given name from Ancient Greek.
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According to him, Zenobia's father, ‘Amr ibn al-Ẓarib, was the sheikh of the 'Amlaqi.
According to the Augustan History (Aurel. 31.2), Zenobia's father's name was Achilleus and his usurper was named Antiochus (Zos. 1.60.2).
After members of the rival Tanukh tribal confederation killed him, Zenobia became the head of the 'Amlaqis, leading them in their nomadic lifestyle to summer and winter pastures.
Alaric Watson, p.216 Besides, the troubles with Zenobia in the East and the breakaway Gallic Empire in the West were so urgent that the victory at Naissus could only serve as a temporary relief for the troubled Empire.
Dividing from the central or Italian fourth, three great divisions of the Empire separated into the West, East and Illyricum under Posthumus, Aureolus and Zenobia respectively — divisions that were later legitimized by Diocletian.
However, this "Antiochus" is not recorded on other inscriptions and therefore neither his lineage or position is known and it is more probable that Antiochus was not the father but an ancestor of Zenobia.
Potter, pg. 267 Although it is not proven that the invasion of Gaul was the breaking point between Claudius and Zenobia, the sequence of events point to the siege as an important factor.
Sources also describe Zenobia as carrying herself like a man, riding, hunting and drinking on occasion with her officers.
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 ).
The historian Callinicus dedicated a ten-book history of Alexandria to a "Cleopatra", who can only be Zenobia.
There is an inscription, "the illustrious consul our lord" at Palmyra, dedicated to Odaenathus by Zenobia.
This son Vaballathus (Latin from Aramaic והב אלת main / Wahballat, "Gift of the Goddess") inherited the name of Odaenathus' paternal grandfather. citation In 267, Zenobia's husband and stepson were assassinated.
Zenobia is said to have married a Roman governor and senator whose name is unknown, though there is reason to think it may have been Marcellus Petrus Nutenus.
Zenobia's father's name is unknown.
Zenobia was unable to remove her treasury at Emesa before Aurelian arrived and successfully besieged the city.