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Odaenathus

c. 220–267 · 3rd century

Odaenathus was a ruler of Palmyra in Roman Syria and husband of Zenobia. After the Persian king Shapur I captured the emperor Valerian in 260, he attacked the retreating Persian army, suppressed the usurpers Macrianus and Quietus, and raided Sasanian territory as far as Ctesiphon. The emperor Gallienus recognised him as corrector of the whole East. He was assassinated around 267, and Zenobia then ruled in the name of their son Vaballathus.

Odaenathus — Image: Harald Ingholt, Henri Seyrig and Jean Starcky, followed by linguistic remarks by André Caquot. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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Palmyrene Empire

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