Yet even with him disfigured, her passion for him burned.
Blinded by love, she blinded him in his sleep. It's said that Artemisia fell hard for a man, who ignored her to his detriment. Watching from the shore, Xerxes saw the collision and believed Artemisia had sunk a Greek enemy, not one of his own.įor all of this, her death was not one recorded in a great battle, but in a sexist legend.
With a Greek vessel bearing down on her ship, Artemisia intentionally steered into another Persian vessel to trick the Greeks into believing she was one of them. This included a ruthless sense of self-preservation. Greek historian Herodotus wrote of her heroics on this battlefield of the sea, painting her as a warrior who was decisive and incredibly intelligent in her strategies. She made her mark on history in the Battle of Salamis, where the fleet she commanded was deemed the best against the Greeks.
(Yes, like in the action movie 300: Rise of an Empire.) However, she was best known as a naval commander and ally of Xerxes, the King of Persia, in his invasion of the Greek city-states. Named after the Goddess of the Hunt (Artemis), Artemisia was the 5th century BCE Queen of Halicarnassus, a kingdom that exists in modern-day Turkey.
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