ARTEMISIA, a queen of Caria, and daughter of Lygdamis, took part in person in the expedition of Xerxes against the Greeks, and distinguished herself in the sea-fight near Salamis, 480 B.C. She is said to have loved a young man named Dardanus, of Abydos; and enraged at his neglect of her, to have put out his eyes while he was asleep. The gods punished her for this, by increasing her passion; and having been advised by an oracle to go to Leucas, she is said to have taken the lover's leap, and to have been interred at that place. This part of her history, however, is probably fictitious.