Talk:Artemisia I of Caria

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Contents 1 Biography assessment rating comment 2 Discussion 3 Death 4 Herodotus 5 Herodotus II

[edit] Biography assessment rating comment

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[edit] Discussion

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. --Aliaslola 22:16, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

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.

Hope this awnsers your question. --Aldux 22:47, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, my work was focusing on Herodotus.--Aliaslola 00:08, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Death

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.

[edit] 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:

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/480artemisia.html

I think the problem I've had stems from issues with the http://classics.mit.edu/Herodotus/history.html page. I've got enough info to site this now.

This text seems better.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/herodotus-history.txt

[edit] Herodotus II

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