tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post4661637201580357394..comments2024-02-04T03:57:19.271+01:00Comments on Zenobia: Empress of the East: HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZENOBIA!Judith Weingartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06683483030413488309noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-5449990253577730772010-01-27T15:32:01.739+01:002010-01-27T15:32:01.739+01:00Judith/ Zenobia - congratulations on your third bi...Judith/ Zenobia - congratulations on your third birthday. Palmyra is one the sites in my Blue Guide to the Sites of Antiquity so I was pleased to see your enthusiasm.<br />Also I understand that you have been supporting me against a somewhat arrogant Australian blogger. I am just coming up to forty years earning (often precariously!) my living from teaching, writing, lecturing in history so it has been a source of great hilarity to me and my friends to be called an amateur by a twenty-something year old. Perhaps with age he will realise that a successful blog needs to be responsive to all views and that the joy of history is that there is no one interpretation. We live in hope.<br />Good luck with your work, Charles Freeman.Charles Freeman.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-1006344835237809812010-01-17T01:29:19.418+01:002010-01-17T01:29:19.418+01:00Judith,
You can't really call Harlan's Ze...Judith,<br /><br />You can't really call Harlan's Zenobia a lead character, she's more a supporting character. Later to become a henchwoman to another supporting character. Still, the romance of Mohammed and Zenobia could be a story of its own. Search for "Thomas Harlan", he has a web presence. He might be interested in the possibilities.mythusmagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10458869083534878283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-69679565071709736882010-01-16T16:35:47.410+01:002010-01-16T16:35:47.410+01:00Good heavens, mythusmage, that's quite a story...Good heavens, mythusmage, that's quite a story line. And I thought my Zenobia novel was bold! <br /><br />Thanks for letting me know about her manifestation in alternate earth.<br /><br />JuddithJudith Weingartenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06683483030413488309noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-73270214791424412552010-01-14T10:32:00.491+01:002010-01-14T10:32:00.491+01:00Not really pertinent to the post, but in Thomas Ha...Not really pertinent to the post, but in Thomas Harlan's <i>Oath of Empire</i> Zenobia is the name given to the queen of Palmyra in an alternate Earth; one where western Rome has survived to the 7th century AD thanks to the oath in question, powered by working magic.<br /><br />This Zenobia is an ally of Rome and Byzantium in their war against the Persians, and ends up getting betrayed by them. She also meets the future prophet Mohammed and becomes his lover. It being Mohammed who takes up command of Palmyra's forces during the Persian siege.<br /><br />Zenobia is killed at the end of the siege, her body hidden by Mohammed and his men. The body is later recovered from the grave by Zenobia's younger sister, now queen of Palmyra. Who in turn is suborned by the Persian prince and vampire Dahak, who aids Zenobia in possessing the younger woman.<br /><br />In the end Zenobia is fully restored to life by the new Roman Emperor/Sauron analog Maxian. Mohammed, her one time lover has in the meantime become a prophet of God, a bhodisvatta, and an analog of Gandalf the White.<br /><br />Thomas Harlan has freely admitted to the parallels with Tolkien's <i>The Lord of the Rings</i>.mythusmagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10458869083534878283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-59613909527492571672010-01-04T19:52:16.361+01:002010-01-04T19:52:16.361+01:00oh my...what an end, poetic license or not.oh my...what an end, poetic license or not.Janet, The Queen of Seafordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07876204203323750245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38472234.post-50514637021532431182010-01-03T21:54:05.271+01:002010-01-03T21:54:05.271+01:00Congratulations! Blog-wise we are almost of an age...Congratulations! Blog-wise we are almost of an age. May yours go to yet greater strengths in the future. (And that Manley poem, the scansion I find awkward but the splendour and the squalor and the humanity and dignity all worked up next to each other like that, it is very well done.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com