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, economic, 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 material 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, and 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.
0 有用 Lessicalmente 2021-06-08 23:43:05
不算一本人物传记,其实一半的篇幅在讲历史背景,事实上相关的可靠史料很少,Zenobia的早年生活更是一片空白,作者也只能尽力整合文献和考古成果,catch a glimmer of the shooting star……让人感慨的是,无论在古代还是现代,Zenobia的形象都被人以不同的方式修改重塑,为带有政治色彩的不同目的服务……
0 有用 Lessicalmente 2021-06-08 23:43:05
不算一本人物传记,其实一半的篇幅在讲历史背景,事实上相关的可靠史料很少,Zenobia的早年生活更是一片空白,作者也只能尽力整合文献和考古成果,catch a glimmer of the shooting star……让人感慨的是,无论在古代还是现代,Zenobia的形象都被人以不同的方式修改重塑,为带有政治色彩的不同目的服务……