id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3484 Zenobia - Wikipedia .html text/html 17323 2140 71 From the second to the fourth centuries, Syrian intellectuals argued that Greek culture did not evolve in Greece but was adapted from the Near East.[121] According to Iamblichus, the great Greek philosophers reused Near Eastern and Egyptian ideas.[122] The Palmyrene court was probably dominated by this school of thought, with an intellectual narrative presenting Palmyra's dynasty as a Roman imperial one succeeding the Persian, Seleucid and Ptolemaic rulers who controlled the region in which Hellenistic culture allegedly originated.[122] Nicostratus wrote a history of the Roman Empire from Philip the Arab to Odaenathus, presenting the latter as a legitimate imperial successor and contrasting his successes with the disastrous reigns of the emperors.[121] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3484.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3484.txt