Episode B52 – Palmyra

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Synopsis: Boxed in by Aurelian’s siege, Zenobia makes a desperate attempt to enlist the support of the Persians. “Palmyra was the last resource of the widow of Odaenathus. She retired within the walls of her capital, made every preparation for a vigorous resistance, and declared, with the intrepidity of a heroine, that the last moment of her reign and of her life should be the same.” – Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire “You have the prospect of such Magnicient Ruines, that if it be Lawful to frame a Conjecture of the Original Beauty of the place, by what is still remaining, I question somewhat whether any City in the World could have challenged Precedence over this in all its Glory.” – W. Halifax, A Relation of a Voyage from Aleppo to Palmyra in Syria, 1695 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.0	Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and rate the series on iTunes. Thanks again for listening. The Ancient World Bloodline
1:17.0	Episode B52, Paul Myra. He was the first Roman to visit the site in nearly a thousand years.
1:30.9	The marble columns and majestic temples evoked a time of ancient glory, and the place itself
1:38.5	still bore the name of Tadmore or Palmyra. But the stark descent from Better Days was also pretty apparent.
1:48.8	The one-time city that challenged Rome was now a minor Arab village,
1:55.0	huddled inside the spacious courtyard of the temple of Bell.
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