Artemisia I
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- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Government and Politics, Women’s Issues, Royalty, Rulers, Nobility, Military History
- Subcategories: Kings, Queens, Kingdoms, Monarchy
- Curriculum: Women’s History, Ancient History, World History
Article abstract: Ionian Greek queen (r. c. 480 b.c.e.){$I[g]Persia;Artemisia I}{$I[g]Greece;Artemisia I} Artemisia I was a brilliant military strategist and commander who advised Xerxes I during his campaigns in the Persian Wars.
Early Life
Nearly all the information on Artemisia I of Halicarnassus (AR-teh-MEE-see-ah) comes from Herodotus, also of Halicarnassus, the historian who wrote about the Persian Wars in Historiai Herodotou (c. 424 b.c.e.; The History, 1709). Halicarnassus was one of the city-states under the Persian Empire that was...
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