Synopsis:Aurelian
returns East to crush Palmyrene revolts in Syria and Egypt.The sources relate differing accounts of Zenobia’s
ultimate fate.
“To the tumultuous throng which crowded under these
porticoes the solitude of death has succeeded.The silence of the tomb is substituted for the hum of polite places.” –
Count C.F.C deVolney, The Ruins, or
Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires “The elevation of
Odaenathus and Zenobia appeared to reflect new splendor on their country, and
Palmyra, for a while, stood forth the rival of Rome; but the competition was
fatal, and ages of prosperity were sacrificed to a moment of glory.” – Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire “When the sand seems to disappear, not beneath the verdure
of an oasis but beneath an accumulation of marble and worked stones, silence
falls among the travelers…it is then that a man, even the least civilized,
feels himself to be small and, despite himself, meditates on the presence of
that mighty ru…
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