Zenobia
fictional city in Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities"
Zenobia Forster
character in "The Blithedale Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Zenobia "Zeena" Frome
wife in "Ethan Frome"
Zenobia
character in G. Bernard Shaw's play "Getting Married"
Queen Zenobia
a ship the game "Resident Evil: Revelations"
Psyche Zenobia
narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's short story "A Predicament"
Zuri Zenobia Ross
from the Disney Channel show "Jessie"
Zenobia
character in the Conan the Barbarian series
"Zenobia
" elephant in a 1939 comedy starring Oliver Hardy
Zenobia
from "The Vampire Chronicles" by Anne Rice
The second element (
bia) is identical to the name of a personification of Violence, Force; in Greek mythology Bia was the daughter of Pallas and Styx. Together with Hephaestus and her brother Cratos, she chained Prometheus to the rock.
Alternatively Zenobia may be a Greco
Latin form of some Semitic name (e.g., perhaps one akin to the Arabic Zaynab)
