Ancient Queen of Caria
Queen Artemisia and her husband King Mausolus loved filling their city, Halicarnassus, with beautiful temples, grand buildings and shiny statues made of gold and marble.
She would use plants as medicines. If her people were healthy and felt good, then they would be able to enjoy all the beautiful things around them.
Not only did Queen Artemisia build a splendid city, but she created the prettiest tomb in the whole world!
Her tomb was later called a Mausoluem and it was chosen to be one of the Seven Wonders of the World because it was so lovely.
But, in the last years of her life, she had to defeat an army that was coming to take her kingdom from her!
Discover the story of Artemisia & find out what happens to her majestic city when Alexander the Great comes to conquer it.
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“We’re loving your new book, Artemisia II. What a lovely way to open up ancient history to your readers.
The book FEELS lovely, both the cover and the pages. The text, footnotes (pronunciations) and paintings are all amazing. My grandson (7yo) particularly likes the night-time picture on page 26 and keeps asking for us to go back to it. It’s a beautiful picture.
He has lots of questions about queens and where places are on the map and what will happen next. We’re having fun expanding his vocabulary too.
The story is intriguing for me as much as it is for him. Why? Because I studied Ancient Greek history – almost so long ago that it could have been current news! I now realise that not once were there any women mentioned. Certainly not warrior women nor queens – nor the women at home supporting their community.
I have been caused by Artemisia II to trek back into history to find out more.
Thank you, and congratulations to you and Ariel for a lovely book, and for the insights it’s brought to both of us as we read our way through it.”
– Jan, grandmother
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