Palmyrus - A Roman City in the Desert

Palmyrus cation out in the middle of the desert also allowed it something that most cities in the ancient world had long since lost, independence. The age of the city state had long ago given way to the age of the multi national empire. But palmyra lay out in a nebulous gray area between rome to the west and persia to the east. As such, it was often claimed by both, but controlled by neither. By the two fifties, odinathus was the leading man of palmyra, and acting as the city's chief executive,. He had close ties to rome, but the growing power of the sisonids had left him and his