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Paul of Samosata, Zenobia and Aurelian: the Church, Local Culture and Political Allegiance in Third-Century Syria*

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Fergus Millar
Fergus Millar
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What we call the ‘Eastern frontier’ of the Roman Empire was a thing of shadows, which reflected the diplomatic convenience of a given moment, and dictated the positioning of some soldiers and customs officials, but hardly affected the attitudes or the movements of the people on either side. Nothing more than the raids of desert nomads, for instance, hindered the endless movement of persons and ideas between Judaea and the Babylonian Jewish community. Similarly, as Lucian testifies, offerings came to the temple of Atargatis at Hierapolis-Bambyce from a wide area of the Near and Middle East, including Babylonia. The actual movement to and fro of individuals was reflected, as we have recently been reminded, in a close interrelation of artistic and architectural styles. Moreover, whatever qualifications have to be made in regard to specific places, it is incontestable that Semitic languages, primarily Aramaic in its various dialects, remained in active use, in a varying relationship to Greek, from the Tigris through the Fertile Crescent to the Phoenician coast. This region remained, we must now realize, a cultural unity, substantially unaffected by the empires of Rome or of Parthia or Sassanid Persia.

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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 61 , November 1971 , pp. 1 - 17
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83 John Chrys., Hom. 19 ad pop. Ant. I (PG XLIX, 188); cf. Serm. de mart. I (PG L, 646) πόλις μὲν γὰρ καὶ χώρα ἐν τοῖς βιωτικοῖς πράγμασιν ἀλλήλων διεστήκασι, κατὰ δὲ τὸν τῆς εὐσεβείας λόγον κοινωνοῦσι καὶ ἤνωνται. Μὴ γάρ μοι τὴν βάρβαρον αὐτῶν φωνὴν ἴδῃς, ἀλλὰ τὴν φιλοσοφοῦσαν αὐτῶν διανοίαν. On the other hand Hom. Matt. 7, 2 (PG LVII, 74), καὶ ὄσοι τὴν Σύρων ἴσασι γλῶτταν, ἴσασι τὸ λεγόμενον, seems to imply the presence of some Aramaic speakers in his audience.

84 Theod., Hist. Relig., 17 (PG LXXXII, 1420, 1424

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91 Zon. XII, 24; cf. HA, Vit. Gall. 3, 4, and Petricius, Petrus, FHG IV, p. 195Google Scholar = Dio, ed. Boissevain III, P. 744.

92 Contra Schlumberger, op. cit. (n. 88), 48, and J. Starcky, op. cit. (n. 88), 54. The title appears in IGR III, 1031 = Cantineau, J., Inventaire des inscriptions de Palmyre III (1930)Google Scholar, no. 17. Cf. Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor (1950), ch. XXIX, n. 32.

93 See Février, op. cit. (n. 88), 85 f; Alföldi, op. cit. (n. 89), 76 f. (188 f.).

94 Zosimus I, 39, 2. Note, however, the variant tradition of Syncellus O, p. 716–7 (Bonn), according to which he was killed in Cappadocia on his way to repel a Gothic invasion.

95 Probably between 29 August, 267 and 28 August, 268, because Alexandrian coins seem to show the fourth year of Vabalathus ending on 28 August, 271. See Schlumberger, op. cit. (n. 88), 61.

96 See Alföldi, op. cit. (n. 89), and CAH XII, 178–9. Cf. C. Brenot and Pflaum, H.-G., ‘Les émissions orientales de la fin du IIIe siècle après J.-C. à la lumière de deux trésors découverts en Syrie,’ Rev. Num. VII (1965), 134Google Scholar; cf. Callu, J.-P., La politique monétaire des empereurs romains de 238 à 311, Bib. Éc. Fr. Ath. Rom., CCXIV (1969), 220–1Google Scholar.

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99 See Schlumberger, op. cit. (n. 88), and H. Seyrig, ‘Vabalathus Augustus’, Mélanges Michalowski (1966), 659. Note, however, an ostracon, O. Mich. 1006 which dates to May/June, 271 and describes Aurelian and Athenodorus (Vabalathus) as Αὐγυστῶν.

100 Dated to 270 by Alföldi, A., ‘Uber die Juthungeneinfälle unter Aurelian’, BIAB XVI (1950), 21Google Scholar = Studien, 427. But see n. 164 below.

101 Zos. I, 50, 1.

102 Zos. I, 44. cf. HA, Claud. II, 1–2. Compare the inscription published by Seyrig, H., Syria XXXI 1954), 214–17Google Scholar. Originating probably from the Hauran, it refers to the deaths of many persons in Egypt, probably men recruited by Palmyra.

103 See A. Stein, Die Präfekten von Ägypten in der römischen Kaiserzeit (1950), 148–50.

104 See Parsons, P. J., ‘A Proclamation of Vaballathus?’, Chron. d'Ég. XLII (1967), 397Google Scholar. See also n. 164 below.

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106 OGIS 647 = IGR III 1065. On the other hand, the milestone of Vabalathus on the Bostra-Philadelphia road (AE 1904, 60) calls him ’Im(perator) Caesar’ but not ‘Augustus’, and will be a year or two earlier.

107 Perhaps the nearest to concrete evidence available are the two tesserae of Herodianus and Zenobia which were probably found at Antioch, published by Seyrig, H., ‘Note sur Hérodien, prince de Palmyre’, Syria XVIII (1937), 1Google Scholar. Herodianus should be the Herodes, son of Odenathus, who was killed with his father in 267/8 (HA, Trig. Tyr. 15–16). But even if the find-spots of the tesserae were certain, they are portable objects.

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112 See Clermont-Ganneau, op. cit. (n. 109), 394, 398.

113 Zos. I, 57, 4, εἰ καθέξουσιν τὴν ἑῴας ἡγεμονίαν.

114 Zos. I, 39, 1, τοῑς δὲ περὶ τὴν ἑῴαν πράγμασιν οὗσιν ἐν ἀπογνώσει βοηθεῖν Όδαίναθον ἔταξεν. Zon. XII, 24 Ώδέναθον δὲ τῆς ἀνδραγαθίας ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀμειβόμενος πάσης ἀνατολῆς αὐτὸν προχειρίσατο στρατηγόν. Cf. Syncellus, p. 716 (Bonn.) ὃς καὶ στρατηγὸς τῆς ἑῴας ὑπὸ Γαλιηνοῦ διὰ τοῦτο τετίμηται.

115 Eutropius IX, 13, 2, ‘Zenobiam quoque occiso Odenatho marito Orientem tenebat’; Orosius VII, 23, 4 ‘Zenobiam, quae occiso Odenato marito suo Syriam receptam sibi vindicabat’; cf. Festus, Brev. 24 ‘ea enim post mortem mariti feminea dicione Orientis tenebat imperium’.

116 HA, Vit. Gall. I, 1 ‘Cum Odenatus iam Orientis cepisset imperium’; 3, 3 ‘totius prope Orientis factus est Odenatus imperator’; 10, 1. ‘Odenatus rex Palmyrenorum obtinuit totius Orientis imperium ’; Trig. Tyr. 14, 1, ‘Odenatus, qui olim iam orientem tenebat’.

117 HA, Vit. Gall. 12, 1.

118 Zos. I, 51, 3.

119 Jer., Chron. ed. Helm, p. 222 ‘In qua pugna strenuissime adversum earn dimicavit Pompeianus dux cognomento Francus. Cuius familia hodieque aput Antiochiam perseverat. Ex cuius Euagrius presbyter carissimus nobis stirpe descendit.’

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165 The parallel case of the repetition by the Emperor of the wording of the original letter when replying to a provincial governor is patent in the case of Pliny and Trajan, see Sherwin-White, The Letters of Pliny (1966), 537 f.; for letters in reply to city embassies see Millar, Roman Empire 76.

166 Zos. I, 48–9; see Alföldi, op. cit. (n. 100).

167 If that is what is meant by the puzzling phrase of Eusebius, HE VII, 29, 2, σοφιστοῦ τῶν ἐπ' Άντιοχείας Έλληνικῶν παιδευτηρίων διατριβῆς προεστώς. Note Richard, M., ‘Malchion et Paul de Samosate: le témoignage d'Eusèbe de Césarée’, Eph. Theol. Lovanienses XXXV (1959), 325Google Scholar.

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175 HE VI, 33; the connection is indicated by J. Daniélou and H. Marrou, op. cit. (n. 12), 253. For the documentary record of the confutation by Origen of another local heresy, almost certainly Arabian also, see J. Scherer, Entretien d'Origène avec Héraclide (1960).

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181 See J. Daniélou and H. Marrou, op. cit. (n. 12), 252, ‘Il est typiquement oriental. On trouve chez lui les usages de la Syrie de l'est…’