Zenobia, the Queen Who Defied the Roman Empire; The History of Spider-Man

High Tales of History

Welcome to episode 67! We cover the ancient and the recent in this one! First up, Laurel takes the Smoke Circle back to the Roman Empire's Crisis of the Third Century. Rome was a revolving door of emperors and constant uprisings and civil wars. During this period of time, one regent queen rose up and broke away from Rome, creating her own empire in a meteoric rise...

Next, Kt tells the story of two struggling artists who pitched the idea of a young man bitten by a radioactive spider for a comic hero. Coming so close to not being made at all, Spider Man ended up being one of comics' greatest heroes and it biggest breakout star.

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Mentioned In The Stories:

Map of the Palmyrene Empire

Spider-Man's First Appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15

A Little History Podcast with Patrick Little

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Source Materials:

Queen Zenobia--

Queen Zenobia of Palmyra: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Levant's Most Famous Queen by the Charles River Editors

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/history-queen-zenobia-defied-rome

https://www.worldhistory.org/zenobia/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Septimius-Odaenathus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_civil_wars_and_revolts

Spider-Man--

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Spider-Man-comic-book-character

https://around.uoregon.edu/spider-man-60-learning-history-comics

https://www.anchorcounselingcenters.com/superhero-blog/week-5-spider-man-learning-with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/