{"product_id":"zenobia-shooting-star-of-palmyra-9780197610817","title":"Zenobia: Shooting Star of Palmyra","description":"Hailing from the Syrian city of Palmyra, a woman named Zenobia (also Bathzabbai) governed territory in the eastern Roman empire from 268 to 272. She thus became the most famous Palmyrene who ever lived. But sources for her life and career are scarce. This book situates Zenobia in the social, \u003cbr\u003eeconomic, cultural, and material context of her Palmyra. By doing so, it aims to shed greater light on the experiences of Zenobia and Palmyrene women like her at various stages of their lives. Not limiting itself to the political aspects of her governance, it contemplates what inscriptions and\u003cbr\u003ematerial culture at Palmyra enable us to know about women and the practice of gender there, and thus the world that Zenobia navigated. It reflects on her clothes, house, hygiene, property owning, gestures, religious practices, funerary practices, education, languages, social identities, marriage, \u003cbr\u003eand experiences motherhood, along with her meteoric rise to prominence and civil war. It also ponders Zenobia's legacy in light of the contemporary human tragedy in Syria.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNathanael Andrade\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor in History at Binghamton University\u003cstrong\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e He received his PhD in Greek and Roman history from the University of Michigan and has published extensively on the Roman and later Roman Near East along with other topics. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSyrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World \u003c\/em\u003e(Cambridge University Press, 2013) and \u003cem\u003eThe Journey of Christianity to India in Late Antiquity: Networks and the Movement of Culture \u003c\/em\u003e(Cambridge University Press, at press). He is now an associate professor in the Department of History at Binghamton University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50448820437266,"sku":"9780197610817","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d9722601-63ff-4cdd-bb06-221f2fe17f89.jpg?v=1729738969","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zenobia-shooting-star-of-palmyra-9780197610817","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}