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Zenobia of Palmyra: History, Myth and the Neo-Classical Imagination
by Rex Winsbury.
Duckworth, 198 pp., £16.99, September 2010,978 0 7156 3853 8 Show More
by Rex Winsbury.
Duckworth, 198 pp., £16.99, September 2010,
“... Republic only to the extent that it advanced their own ambitions for total domination. Whatever Caesar and Pompey, Cato and Scipio, Brutus and Cassius, Antony and Octavian were fighting for within the puzzling framework of Roman logic, they were all more or less the same viewed from the Greek perspective: terrifying and predatory, to be sure, but also ... ”