Palmyran ambitions

I received back my essay on the Alexander Severus' war against the Persians. I am pleased with the result. The next essay is due on 21 April. I've decided to write about Palmyra c. 250-272 AD - the merchant city in the Syrian Desert, where one could find statues of caravan leaders lining the bazaars, as though they were emperors themselves. The city which, under the leadership of Odaenathus, won back the eastern provinces for the bungling Roman Empire, and which later, under the command of Odaenathus' wife and son, went all Kurtz and attempted to establish its own empire throughout Syria, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Zenobia, the aforementioned widow of Odaenathus, was captured and brought to Rome in gold chains, an event which seems to have sparked some Gorean imagination.