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Queen Artemisia: The Female Admiral Who Fought for Xerxes
In this episode of The Achaemenid Empire: Persia's Golden Age of Power, Lucas and Luna explore the remarkable story of Artemisia I of Halicarnassus, the only female commander in Xerxes' invasion of Greece. As a Carian Greek queen ruling under Persian suzerainty, Artemisia commanded five ships at the Battle of Salamis in 480 BCE, where her tactical advice to Xerxes—to avoid engaging the Greek fleet in the narrow strait—was ignored, leading to a Persian defeat. Herodotus, our main source, paints her as a shrewd advisor and bold fighter, even describing a desperate maneuver where she rammed an…
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