Herodes
Herodes ( Septimius Herodianus ) is the heir to Odénat of Plamyre and is undoubtedly to identify with the character mentioned by the inscription IGRR III, 1032 (Palmyre), and which gives him the title of " King of the rois" (title also taken by Odénat).
Herodes is described by the Histoire Auguste as the oldest son of Odénath of a first bed, and thus the beautiful son of Zénobie. That Ci would have treated it like would have made a genuine mantle, and it would have been jealous owing to the fact that his/her beautiful son can inherit Palmyre more than his own descendants. The writer of the Histoire Auguste does not draw up besides a very flattering portrait of Herodes only it describes like an individual with the life and manners dissolues, " most effeminate of the hommes" , which was devoted to " all luxuries of Greece and Orient" such as embroidered gold " fabrics; with the manner of the perses" , but to which his/her father, too lenient, passed all the whims and offered to him even treasures taken with the enemy as well as concubines. It is however difficult to know if the writer tells truth and locates Herodes in the princely family well so much his information are prone to guarantee on this point.
Herodes was assassinated probably at the same time as Odénat with Emèse in 267, by that which the Histoire Auguste names Maeonius and which was undoubtedly a close relative of Odénat. This assassination has can be orchestrated by Zénobie, pressed to see his/her own son Waballath reigning or by Gallien, anxious of the news any power of Odénat in the East.
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