Zenobia
Zenobia: empress of Palmyra (r.267-272).
Names:
- date of birth unknown: Julia Aurelia Zenobia
- Autumn 267: clarissima regina
- 270: clarissima pia regina
- Spring 272: Septimia Zenobia Augusta
- Summer 272: taken captive
- circumstances of death unknownnote
Successor of: Odaenathus
Relatives:
- father: Julius Aurelius Zenobius
- married to: Odaenathus
- children: Vaballathus
Main deeds
- 267 Assassination of Odaenathus; Vaballathus recognized as his father's successor (rex regum, corrector totius Orientis, dux Romanorum); Zenobia acts as regent
- 269 Palmyra breaks with Rome; attack on Ancyra
- 270 Conquest of Egypt; cult for Zenobia as "New Cleopatra" (?)
- 272, spring: In the Sasanian empire, Shapur I dies and is succeeded by Hormizd I; Vaballathus starts using full imperial titles and Zenobia calls herself Septimia Zenobia Augusta
- 272, summer: defeated and captured by Aurelian
- 273: in the Sassanid empire, Hormizd I is succeeded by Bahram I; Aurelian destroys Palmyra
- Zenobia died in captivitynote
Contemporary events
- 268 Synod of Antioch declares Paul of Samosata a heretic
Links
- biography from the Historia Augusta