Episode B53 – Memento Mori

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Synopsis: Aurelian returns East to crush Palmyrene revolts in Syria and Egypt. The sources relate differing accounts of Zenobia’s ultimate fate. “To the tumultuous throng which crowded under these porticoes the solitude of death has succeeded. The silence of the tomb is substituted for the hum of polite places.” – Count C.F.C deVolney, The Ruins, or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires “The elevation of Odaenathus and Zenobia appeared to reflect new splendor on their country, and Palmyra, for a while, stood forth the rival of Rome; but the competition was fatal, and ages of prosperity were sacrificed to a moment of glory.” – Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire “When the sand seems to disappear, not beneath the verdure of an oasis but beneath an accumulation of marble and worked stones, silence falls among the travelers…it is then that a man, even the least civilized, feels himself to be small and, despite himself, meditates on the presence of that mighty ruin as upon a mighty sorrow.” – L. Double, 1877 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Scott. If you're a fan of the ancient world, please help us get the word out.
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0:14.0	The ancient world The Ancient World Blood Line
0:27.0	Episode B53, Momento Lori. Tomori.
0:36.0	This is how Zenobia died.
0:39.2	Aurelian marched toward Europe, carrying with him Zenobia, her son, and the rest of the
0:45.0	Confederates in this rebellion. Zenobia is said to have died either of
0:50.8	disease or want of food, but the rest were all drown in the straight
0:56.2	between Chalcedon and Byzantium. That Zosimus writing around the year 500.
1:05.0	For these events, he apparently relied on another historian named Unapius,
1:10.0	who'd written his own universal history around a century earlier.
1:15.0	And if it is an accurate record, our story really ends here.
1:21.0	Queen Zinobia had been killed by chance or like the legendary Juliet
1:27.1	Domna she decided to preserve her remaining honor by starving herself to death.
1:34.0	But as is typical for the crisis years, the scanty sources covering the events are bound to disagree. So let's follow a different narrative that
1:45.9	sees Zenobia go on. Returning safely across the Hellaspant, Alian was immediately re-enrolled in his previous line of work, defending the Beligard Danube provinces from constant barbarian attack. The tribe of the week were the Carpiano from the Carpathian region of modern Romania.
2:10.0	And we know very little about the conflict aside from Aralian's victory.
2:16.0	But that's not really important.
2:20.0	The important part is the letter that arrived, sometime in early 273, as Arelian
2:26.6	prepared to keep marching toward Rome.
2:31.4	Do you guys remember way way back when Cyrus the Great took Sardis?
2:37.0	Being a pretty reasonable guy who liked to minimize his subject's resentment, Cyrus had entrusted a local figure named
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