### q2 Palmyra was threatened by Persia > it can’t have been much fun being ruler of an eastern outpost of Rome just when the Romans were reeling from defeat after defeat delivered by the new Persian Empire across the Euphrates River. In 253 A.D., the Persians attacked Syria and looted Antioch, the greatest city of the East. Three years later, Dura Europos fell, the river stronghold garrisoned by Roman and Palmyran troops. Now nothing but empty steppe stood between the enemy and Palmyra itself, the richest surviving city of Syria. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fn2qeynmgpktk8k8xbxpcbsj) - [[Zenobia, Visionary Queen of Ancient Palmyra by Judith Weingarten#q2 Palmyra was threatened by Persia|View in Vault]] - [n] #storystem/fic