Topic: wars (2)

• PersonArtemisia I of Halicarnassus

  Artemisia I of Halicarnassus was a widowed subject-dynast of Xerxes I who ruled Halicarnassus and several neighbouring Carian and Dorian communities. She brought five ships to the invasion of Greece and fought at Salamis in 480 BCE. Almost everything known about her comes from Herodotus, a later…

• EventThe Battle of Salamis (480 BCE)

  The naval defeat of Xerxes' fleet in the straits between Attica and the island of Salamis, on a day near the end of September 480 BCE, watched by the King from a throne on the shore. It is the most famous single engagement of the Achaemenid wars against the Greeks, and one of the sharpest tests…