- the
declared nominal loyalty of
Odaenathus. In a
series of
rapid and
successful campaigns starting in 262,
Odaenathus crossed the
Euphrates and recovered...
-
Persian war,
Odaenathus ****umed the
title King of Kings,
which was a
challenge to the
Persian monarch's
claims of
authority in the region.
Odaenathus ruled the...
- Augusta,
Odaenathus was
declared king of
Palmyra as soon as the news of the
Roman defeat at
Edessa reached the city. It is not
known if
Odaenathus contacted...
- wife of
Odaenathus, the ras ("lord") of Palmyra.
Noble families in
Palmyra often intermarried, and it is
probable that
Zenobia and
Odaenathus shared some...
-
peasants to
attack Shapur. In 260,
Odaenathus won a
decisive victory over
Shapur in a
battle near the Euphrates. Next,
Odaenathus defeated the
usurpers in 261...
-
power in Syria.
Odaenathus formed an army of
Palmyrenes and
Syrian peasants against Shapur.
According to the
Augustan History,
Odaenathus declared himself...
- that
Odaenathus' wife
Zenobia was an instigator.
Another possibility is that the
murders were
organized by
Emperor Gallienus who
feared that
Odaenathus was...
- of the Al Fadl
dynasty which ruled over the city in the 14th century.
Odaenathus, the lord of Palmyra,
declared himself king
before riding into battle...
-
richest in the
Roman Empire. In the late 3rd
century the
Palmyrene king
Odaenathus defeated the
Persian emperor Shapur I and
controlled the
entirety of the...
-
settlement in the
Syrian Desert in 259 to the king of
kings of Palmyra,
Odaenathus, and his
second wife, the
queen consort of Palmyra, Zenobia. Vaballathus...
