Rebel queens who made the Empire tremble.5
Characters:
Theme: The role of women
Competencies
Citizen Competition
Competence in cultural awareness and expressions
Subjects and year by Educational System
Spain > Latin > 4th ESO > The present of the Latin civilization
Spain > Classical culture > 2nd ESO > Classical roots of today's world. History and socio-political evolution
Enunciation
Zenobia was empress of Palmyrene’s Empire between the 267 and 272, taking over the regency of her son Wahballat. She focused her politics on recovering the trade through the Red Sea and expanding her territories of Syria, getting to Anatolia through the North, and Egypt through the South. She faced roman emperor Aurelian for not recognizing the authority of Rome over Palmyra. At last, she fell trying to cross the Euphrates.
- Representation in the arts. In groups of 4, make a mural of images of each one of these women: Dido, Cleopatra and Zenobia, including the iconography that represents them in the art’s world: architecture, sculpture, painting, numismatics… May these two images work as an example:
Zenobia’s Denarius Cleopatra’s Tetradrachm
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Denarius-Zenobia-s3290.jpg
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Cleopatra_VII_tetradrachm_Syria_mint.jpg
https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Cleopatra_VII_tetradrachm_Ascalon_mint.jpg
Observations and context
Originally regent of her son Vaballathus, she was later empress and one of the women who faced, like Cleopatra, Dido or Boudica, the power of Rome.
Description
Work on Zenobia’s figure and establish relationships with other rulers who put Rome in a difficult position.