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Episode CCVIII - Odaenathus, King of Kings

Emperors of Rome

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The Death of Odenathus

It all gets very sketchy, it seems. The local plot accounts that I was reading is the nephew doing something wrong during a hunt. Very obscure or maybe being killed at a wedding. There's one story in Zosumus that he's celebrating a friend's birthday. So it does seem to be some sort of local event. And so now the regime had been transformed from being loyal supporters to being rebels and outcasts. Definitely. Zenobia, whose Odenathus's widow wastes no time. She has her ten-year-old son, the labathus, immediately proclaimed King of Kings,. When Claudius II succeeds Galianus, he treats these claims as illegitimate

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