Artemisia

Artemisia, queen of Caria from 352 to 350 B.C., was the sister and wife of Mausolus, and is celebrated for the magnificent mausoleum which she caused to be erected to her husband's memory (see MAUSOLEUM).—Another Artemisia, queen of Halicarnassus, accompanied Xerxes, with five ships, in his expedition against Greece, and distinguished herself at the battle of Salamis (480 B.C.); she ended her life, in consequence of an unfortunate attachment, by leaping from a rock.