ARTEMISIA, the sister and wife of Mausolus (or Maussol lus), king of Caria, was sole ruler from about 353 to 350 B.C. She built for her husband, in Halicarnassus, the magnificent Mauso leum, which was one of the seven wonders of the world. There are statues of Mausolus and Artemisia in the British Museum.
See Vitruvius ii. 8; Diodorus Siculus xvi. 36 ; Cicero, Tusc., iii. 31; Val. Max. iv. 6.