Zenobia and the Gothic Invasion

When odinathus died, his wife zenobia assumed all the power ceded by galleenus. With shrewd political sensibilities and backing of one of her husband's top generals, an experienced soldier named zabda, zenobia was able to assume all the powers odinothus had claimed before any other rival could even muster a counter claim. But gallienu couldn't spare the time or attention it would take to weigh in on the subject. He did send a trusted lieutenant east to make sure that the queen understood who was really in charge, but he soon packed up and left in an angry huff over zenobia's calculated haughtiness. This