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Artemisia
Adler number: alpha,4030
Translated headword: Artemisia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This woman was outstanding in serving [the] Persians; because of her the king said that the men had become women and the women men.[1]
Two Artemisias[2] existed,[3] Carian by nationality and queens both. The first of them lived in the Persian [era]; the younger, of whom
Demosthenes makes mention in the [speech]
On the freedom of the Rhodians, was daughter of Hekatomnos and both wife and sister of Mausolos.[4]
Artemisia: hautê êristeuse kata Persôn: di' hên eipen ho basileus, hôs hoi andres gunaikes gegonasin, hai de gunaikes andres. Artemisiai de duo gegonasi, Karikai genos kai basilides amphoterai, hôn hê men prôtê gegone kata Persida, hê de neôtera, hês kai Dêmosthenês en têi peri tês Rhodiôn eleutherias mnêmoneuei, thugatêr men ên Hekatomnou, gunê de kai adelphê Mausôlou.
Notes:
[1] Xerxes, in
Herodotos 8.88.3 (web address 1); cf. also
Herodotus 7.99 (web address 2) and 8.68 (web address 3).
[2] The source now becomes Harpokration s.v. (here abridged).
[3] See the adjacent entries in OCD(4) p.177.
[4]
Demosthenes 15.11 (web address 4) and 27 (web address 5). For Hekatomnos see
epsilon 367.
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3,
Web address 4,
Web address 5
Keywords: biography; chronology; daily life; gender and sexuality; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; rhetoric; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 October 2000@09:09:15.
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