the-paintrist:fivewordsinaline:Francesco Furini - Artemisia Prepares to Drink Ashes of her Husband,

the-paintrist:fivewordsinaline:Francesco Furini - Artemisia Prepares to Drink Ashes of her Husband, Mausolus (c. 1630)Artemisia II of Caria (in Greek, Ἀρτεμισία; died 350 BC) was a sister, the wife and the successor of the king Mausolus. She was a daughter of Hecatomnus, and after the death of her brother/husband she reigned for two years, from 353 to 351 BC. Her administration was conducted on the same principles as the one of her husband, whence she supported the oligarchical party on the island of Rhodes.She is renowned in history for her extraordinary grief at the death of her husband (and brother) Mausolus. She is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink, and to have gradually pined away during the two years that she survived him. She induced the most eminent Greek rhetoricians to proclaim his praise in their oratory; and to perpetuate his memory she built at Halicarnassus a celebrated majestic monument, listed by Antipater of Sidon as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and whose name subsequently became the generic term for any splendid sepulchral monument (mausoleum, Greek: μαυσωλεῖον). -- source link

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