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Synopsis: Aurelian returns East to crush Palmyrene revolts in Syria and Egypt. The sources relate differing accounts of Zenobia\u2019s ultimate fate.\n\n\u201cTo the tumultuous throng which crowded under these porticoes the solitude of death has succeeded. The silence of the tomb is substituted for the hum of polite places.\u201d \u2013 Count C.F.C deVolney, The Ruins, or Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires\n\u201cThe elevation of Odaenathus and Zenobia appeared to reflect new splendor on their country, and Palmyra, for a while, stood forth the rival of Rome; but the competition was fatal, and ages of prosperity were sacrificed to a moment of glory.\u201d \u2013 Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire\n\n \u201cWhen the sand seems to disappear, not beneath the verdure of an oasis but beneath an accumulation of marble and worked stones, silence falls among the travelers\u2026it is then that a man, even the least civilized, feels himself to be small and, despite himself, meditates on the presence of that mighty ruin as upon a mighty sorrow.\u201d \u2013 L. Double, 1877\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices