Zenobia: Empress of the East

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• Zenobia: Empress of the East: Zenobia and the Manichean Convert (Part II)

  A blog about Queen Zenobia of Palmyra (Tadmor). Women in the ancient world. Women in history. Feminism, goddesses, royal women, and uppity women.

• Zenobia: Empress of the East: Zenobia's Blog

  Ummayat, daughter of Yarhai, 150-200 CE On 3 January 2007, Zenobia's blog was born and, in welcoming her, I thought of the poem by Anne Stevenson, Sylvia Plath which asks a little smaller than a qu...

• Zenobia: Empress of the East: Eritha, A Mycenaean Uppity Woman

  Zenobia: Empress of the East 06 October 2014 Eritha, A Mycenaean Uppity Woman Around the year 1300 B.C.E., a priestess named Eritha argued a law suit against the governing council of the district ...

• Zenobia: Empress of the East: 2015

  Part I, click here The Peregrinations of a Lady This funerary portrait of an elegant upper-class woman from Palmyra used to belong to the  wealthy Italian art historian and critic, Federico Ziri. Bef...

• Zenobia: Empress of the East: The Fate of Saudi Witch, Fawza Falih Muhammad Ali (Updated)

  Zenobia: Empress of the East 07 April 2011 The Fate of Saudi Witch, Fawza Falih Muhammad Ali (Updated) In 2006, Human Rights Watch (HRW) petitioned King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to halt the executi...

• Zenobia: Empress of the East: Zenobia and the Manichean Convert

  Psalms and Prayers [all in Syriac Aramaic], and the Shabuhragân [in Persian]).  Jesus, he said, came to the West, and after his death his disciples wrote down his words. Zoroaster came to  Persia, bu...