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Artemisia I: Quick Facts

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Flourished 450 BCE - c.401 BCE
Role In Battle of Salamis • Greco-Persian Wars
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Themistocles
Athenian politician and naval strategist
Aristides The Just
Aristides The Just
Greek statesman
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Conon
Greek admiral
Herodotus, detail of a Roman herm probably copied from a Greek original of the first half of the 4th century bce; in the National Archaeological Museum, Naples.
Herodotus
Greek historian
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Cimon
Greek statesman and general
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Leotychides
king of Sparta
Cyrus II
Cyrus the Great
king of Persia
Darius the Great
Darius I
king of Persia
Bas-relief detail of Xerxes I wearing a robe and crown, holding a flower, from the north courtyard of the treasury at Persepolis, now in the Archaeological Museum in Tehran.
Xerxes I
king of Persia
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Cambyses II
king of Persia
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Mardonius
Persian general
Agesilaus II; Pharnabazus
Pharnabazus
Persian statesman
Pericles
Pericles
Athenian statesman
Xenophon, statue in front of the parliament building in Vienna.
Xenophon
Greek historian
Alcibiades and Timon
Alcibiades
Athenian politician and general
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Theramenes
Greek politician and general
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Konstantínos Kanáris
Greek statesman
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Demosthenes
Greek general
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Lysander
Greek military leader
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Pausanias
Greek military officer