Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra 9780190852221

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Автор: Raja Rubina
Название: Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra
ISBN: 9780190852221
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Издательство: Oxford University Press, USA
Классификация:

История Ближнего Востока

История Древнего мира: до 500 гг. н.э.

ISBN-10: 0190852224
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 224
Вес: 0.57 кг.
Дата издания: 25.01.2022
Серия: Women in antiquity
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 38 illustrations
Размер: 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Подзаголовок: A history of palmyra
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary status because of its Queen Zenobia, who in the third century CE rebelled against Rome and expanded Palmyras territory into what is now modern
Turkey and Egypt. Even though Zenobias empire was a fairly short interlude and the Romans struck back hard, devastating the city, her path to imperial power was one which tells us much about Palmyrene identity in the period before the defeat. While Zenobia has gained renewed interest among both
scholars and the press, and while she has served as a political symbol for Syrias president Assad--a statue of her was recently erected in Damascus--the time leading up to her reign still remains underexplored.В

Pearl of the Desert is the most comprehensive history of this fabled ancient city in English. Assimilating the rich archaeological and literary evidence, Rubina Raja unfolds the story chronologically, from the earliest evidence of settlement in the Bronze Age to Palmyras rise as an urban center in
the late Hellenistic and Roman periods, its destruction by Rome in 273 CE, and its survival in the Byzantine and medieval Islamic periods. The book ends with a discussion of Palmyras modern rediscovery and, more recently, its chaotic misfortunes during the Syrian civil war when it was used as a
symbol of, alternately, the resistance of the rebels, the power of ISIS, and the supremacy of the Syrian state. After several years of destruction and looting, securing of the site has begun as well as planning for its restoration. At this turning point in Palmyras long history, there is no better
time to assess the past, present, and future of this remarkable city.

Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra, Raja Rubina