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Has anyone found any confirmation for the last part about Artemisia committing suicide? I've read a decent amount on her and I never encountered anything suggesting that she did this. --
Aliaslola22:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)reply
I think the source is
Photius' Myrobiblion, who speaking of a work called New History (now lost) by a certain
Ptolemaeus Chennus writes:
And many others, men and women, suffering from the evil of love, were delivered from their passion in jumping from the top of the rock, such as Artemesa, daughter of Lygdamis, who made war with Persia; enamoured of Dardarnus of Abydos and scorned, she scratched out his eyes while he slept but as her love increased under the inflence of divine anger, she came to Leucade at the instruction of an oracle, threw herself from the top of the rock, killed herself and was buried.
In regard to the etymology of Artemisia: From the Greek meaning "bush" in botany. Arteri-, arterio- also from the Greek artiria and airo, along with artery, arteria. Other Greek derivatives include: arteriogenesis, arteriography, arteriology, arteriopathy, arteriorrhagia, arteriorrhaphy, arteriorrhexis, arteriosclerosis, arteriostenosis, arteriotomy, arterious, arteritis.
124.177.106.42 (
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10:39, 13 June 2013 (UTC)reply
Yes, but how credible is this source? Photios writes 1350 years after the Persian Wars, and even if we rely on Chennus, he writes 600 years too late. The story of Artemisia's suicide is more likely a folk tale.
Herodotus
I am trying to track down the source within Herodotus for some acedemic work. I have read it is in book seven of his histories(betwen the 20 and 22 logos), but cannot find it with a search. Does he use an alternate spelling of her name?
The text I am using is the George Rawlinson version, so it is possible it is older and less complete.
Regardless, I am cunfused. If someone could post page numbers in the discussion pages it would be appreciated.
I have found this site with passages, still am trying to find it within the larger text:
Herodotus mentions Artemisia on several occasions. She is introduced in VII.99. VIII.68 she advises Xerxes not to fight at Salamis. VIII.87-88 she fights at Salamis. VIII.101-103 she advises Xerxes to retreat to Susa, and he entrusts her with his sons.
I hope this has been helpful.
Kind regards
Maria Kargaard
Her rule
The article say nothing of her rule! Why did she rule Caria? For how long? Who were her parents? Was she born princess of Caria? Did she do anything else other than participating in the battle? --
85.226.47.151 (
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11:16, 5 February 2009 (UTC)reply
What is the source for Artemisia and Xerxes being lovers? I am pretty sure that is not in the Greek tradition, but it might appear in Persian literature. In any case, a source should be cited for that detail. Anybody know it?
There is very bad grammar in later sections of the page. -- 21:43, 1 September 2013 31.51.228.131
To the anonymous IP editor(s) that, at least lately, seem to originate from Iran
Please provide reference(s) supporting your claims ; I don't speak Old Persian or Farsi or..., sorry for that, but Anahita though possibly related in one way or another, doesn't seem to be the equivalent of Artemisia. This is the reason I've removed the Persian name forms from the lead. If I'm wrong and this, for whatever reason, is indeed how Artemisia is and/or was called in ancient or modern Persian please reinsert the cut part PROVIDING at the same time some references; if not inside the article then at least here at the talk page; claims after all have to be
verifiable. Again apologies for any possible errors caused by my lack of knowledge of any form of Persian.
Please don't delete, let alone without justification, text about which -many- references have been provided; please try to aim at
NPOV; speaking for myself I hadn't deleted the possibility of a Persian derivation of Artemis, that is, I hadn't delete what you've inserted and reinserted, I had even rewritten properly the missing references from the parts you had added; moreover I've only reinstated and/or added the other possibilities and what seems to me and others- to be the scholarly consensus, i.e. that the etymology is unknown-uncertain.
Either what Richard said or I'd say Graeco-Carian or Halicarnassian Graeco-Carian. P.S. Caria at her time was anyway already partly hellenised and would be later become fully so. P.P.S. For the record: Without any at all intended disrespect towards our Persian friends, some of whom visit at times this page and edit accordingly, Persian she was definitely not. According to the sources, that is; feel free to provide reliable sources if you disagree... ;-) Thanatos|
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contributions03:36, 30 March 2014 (UTC)reply
I don't know she was Greek or not, but she was not Persian (or another Iranic ethnicity). Nothing in the cited sources of this article (for example, see Iranica). She was an ally of the Persian empire. She was Anatolian. Just because of that alliance, some users think she was Persian/Iranic and added her to
Iranian peoples infobox in previous revisions of that article (wrong edits). Reliable source does matter. If your RS says she was X (X= ethnic group), then add X to the article with your cited RS. --
Zyma (
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04:31, 2 April 2014 (UTC)reply
To quote Herodotus: "Now her name, as I said, was Artemisia and she was the daughter of Lygdamis, and by descent she was of Halicarnassos on the side of her father, but of Crete by her mother. She was ruler of the men of Halicarnassos and Cos and Nisyros and Calydna, furnishing five ships; and she furnished ships which were of all the fleet reputed the best after those of the Sidonians, and of all his allies she set forth the best counsels to the king. Of the States of which I said that she was leader I declare the people to be all of Dorian race, those of Halicarnassos being Troizenians, and the rest Epidaurians." It doesn't amount to any simplistic identity for her personal nationality.
Richard Keatinge (
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18:41, 2 April 2014 (UTC)reply
At the moment we describe her as "queen of Halicarnassus,[1] a city of Dorian Greeks... Artemisia's father was the king of Halicarnassus, Lygdamis I (Greek: Λύγδαμις Α') [5][6] and her mother was from the island of Crete.[7][8]" That seems to include all the information we have. Without any specific information that she would have personally claimed Dorian Greek identity or regarded it as important, I'd suggest leaving it as it is.
Richard Keatinge (
talk)
08:03, 3 April 2014 (UTC)reply
The consensus in all secondary sources is that she was Greek. For Herodotus both 'Halicarnassean' and 'Cretan' mean Greek. Halicarnassus was a Greek city and it doesn't matter what Caria was. In fact, I'm not aware of a single viewpoint that thinks of her as anything else. So why not just say that she was Greek? If you think that she was
Anatolian then provide some sources, though a plain Google search will tell you that she's always mentioned as a Greek queen and that's important in the narrative of Herodotus.
Hakkinen (
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13:46, 3 April 2014 (UTC)reply
misleading borderline lying
Iranian destroyer (Persian: ناوشکن) built during the Pahlavi dynasty was named Artemis in her honour.
The sentence above implies it was built by Iranians, during the Pahlavi era. It was not built by Iranians.
see original article:
"HMS Sluys was a Battle-class destroyer of the Royal Navy (RN). She was named in honour of the Battle of Sluys which occurred in 1340 during the Hundred Years' War, and which resulted in a decisive English victory over a French fleet. Sluys was built by Cammell Laird of Birkenhead. She was launched on 28 February 1945 and commissioned on 30 September 1946. In 1967, the ship was transferred to Iran and renamed Artemiz" — Preceding
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Artemisia was Greek, as it is discussed in another discussion.
Nevertheless, the beginning of the article mentioning her Cretan descent from the mother's side is suggesting that Crete is not Greek...
This part has to be rewritten.
Onoufrios d (
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15:18, 10 January 2022 (UTC)reply