Zenobia

Zenobia, Warrior queen of Palmyra, of Syrian father and Egyptian mother, took control of her parents' lands and then some for a flash of the third century. The Romans did not approve, so took it all back and Palmyra besides. It is written that Zenobia was perp-walked in golden chains through Rome alongside Amazons and Goths, all for the greater glory of the Emperor. Ignobility, however, was not hers and so she rose again, this time through the Roman social strata, a less bloody but no less ruthless endeavor.