tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post7226896344060037181..comments2024-03-28T17:46:07.937+00:00Comments on The Edithorial: The Other Ruler of SyriaEdith Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02518971064140009711noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post-57824424405480673372013-07-15T23:04:32.225+01:002013-07-15T23:04:32.225+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Rehan Qayoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02391797858691917631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post-36645398576391090842013-06-08T12:40:54.460+01:002013-06-08T12:40:54.460+01:00Thanks, Matt. I wish I could read Arabic to do som...Thanks, Matt. I wish I could read Arabic to do some investigating of her in Syrian sources today...Edith Hallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02518971064140009711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4134533972010981122.post-83358520737081490762013-06-03T21:45:37.523+01:002013-06-03T21:45:37.523+01:00I'm embarrassed to say I'd never heard of ...I'm embarrassed to say I'd never heard of her, despite speaking Arabic. And, sadly, it turns out her write-up on Arabic Wikipedia is about a quarter the length of that in English. (Hardly a scientific barometer, I know, but a test I've been inclined to apply to subjects overlapping both Western Classicism and the modern Arab World since sitting an Arabic reading comprehension test in which the sample text was, by chance, the Wikipedia entry on Babylon - a miserable two paragraphs, though it's since grown slightly.) In the introduction to Zenoba's Arabic-language page, she also shares the billing somewhat with her husband: <br /><br />"Zenoba or [al-Zaba?] (240 - circa 274) was a Palmyran queen, she led with her husband [Udhayna] a revolt against the Roman Empire, succeeding [dual, so presumably 'Zenoba and her husband succeeding'] in the course of it taking contol of most of Syria. After the death of her husband she led the Palmyran Empire to the brief conquest of Egypt before the Emperor Aurelien took her captive, to Rome, where she soon died of mysterious reason." <br /><br />Perhaps I shall have to read some of the scholarly treatments to see how folkloric her treatment is in Arabic compared to English (or vice versa, though I suspect the former).Matt Keefehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06504500969184399780noreply@blogger.com