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.

ARTEMISTA, the sister and wife of Mausolus, king of Caria, immortalized herself by the honours which she paid to the memory of her husband. She built for him, in Halicarnassus, a very magnificent tomb, called the Mausoleum, which was one of the seven wonders of the world, and from which the title of Mausoleum was afterwards given to all tombs remarkable for their grandeur; but she died of regret and sorrow before it was finished. She appointed panegyrics to be made in honour of him, and proposed a prize of great value for the person who should compose the best. She died about 350 B.C.

a botanical genus of the natural order of Compositae; of which the best known are A. Absinthium, or wormwood, and A. Abrotanum, or southernwood.