Odaenathus

Lucius Septimius Udaynath, Latinized as Odaenathus , was the founder king of the Palmyrene Kingdom centered at the city of Palmyra, Syria. He lifted his city from the position of a regional center subordinate to Rome into the supreme power in the East. Odaenathus was born into an aristocratic Palmyrene family who had received Roman citizenship in the 190s under the Severan dynasty. He was the son of Hairan the descendant of Nasor. The circumstances surrounding his rise are ambiguous he became the lord of the city, a position created for him, as early as the 240s and by 258, he was styled a consularis, indicating a high status in the Roman Empire.

Odaenathus is the Roman version of the kings name who was born Lucius Septimius Udaynath c. 220 AD. Udaynath is the kings personal name, an Arabic name that means little ear. Septimius was the familys gentilicium adopted as an expression of loyalty to the Roman Severan dynasty, whose emperor Septimius Severus granted the family Roman citizenship in the late second century.

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