"But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Eowyn, I am. You stand between me and my lord. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead. I will kill you if you touch him." The Shieldmaiden of Rohan battling the Witchking of Angmar, Lord of Nazgul at the Pelennor Fields.
In Her Golden Chains
November 18, 2006
Zenobia, daughter of Zabaai ben Selim, a widow of Septimus Odenathus, Queen of Palmyra and the Palmyrene Empire as regent for her infant son Vaballathus. Aurelian, a Roman emperor, captured her from Persia and brought her to Rome and paraded her in his triumph bound in gold chains. Impressed by her beauty and dignity, Aurelian later freed her and granted her a villa in Tibur.
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