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Artemisium or Artemision (
Greek
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: Ἀρτεμίσιον) is a cape in northern
Euboea
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,
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. The legendary hollow cast bronze statue of
Zeus
Zeus or , , ; grc, Δῐός, ''Diós'', label= genitive Boeotian Aeolic and Laconian grc-dor, Δεύς, Deús ; grc, Δέος, ''Déos'', label= genitive el, Δίας, ''Días'' () is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek reli ...
, or possibly
Poseidon
Poseidon (; grc-gre, Ποσειδῶν) was one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and myth, god of the sea, storms, earthquakes and horses.Burkert 1985pp. 136–139 In pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, he was venerated as a ...
, known as the ''
Artemision Bronze
The Artemision Bronze (often called the God from the Sea) is an ancient Greek sculpture that was recovered from the sea off Cape Artemision, in northern Euboea, Greece. According to most scholars, the bronze represents Zeus, the thunder-god and k ...
'', was found off this cape in a sunken ship,
[Woodford, Susan. (1982) ''The Art of Greece and Rome''. Cambridge: ]Cambridge University Press
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, p. 15. as was the
Jockey of Artemision
The Jockey of Artemision is a large Hellenistic bronze statue of a young boy riding a horse, dated to around 150–140 BC. It is a rare surviving original bronze statue from Ancient Greece and a rare example in Greek sculpture of a racehorse. Mos ...
, a bronze statue of a racehorse and its jockey.
The
Battle of Artemisium
The Battle of Artemisium or Artemision was a series of naval engagements over three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece. The battle took place simultaneously with the land battle at Thermopylae, in August or September 480 BC, off t ...
, a series of naval engagements over three days during the
second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC, simultaneously with the more famous land battle at
Battle of Thermopylae, took place here. The film ''
300: Rise of an Empire'' was loosely based on this historic battle.
See also
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Temple of Artemis
The Temple of Artemis or Artemision ( gr, Ἀρτεμίσιον; tr, Artemis Tapınağı), also known as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to an ancient, local form of the goddess Artemis (identified with Diana, a Roman go ...
*
Artemisio
Artemisio ( el, Αρτεμίσιο) is a village and a former municipality in Euboea, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Istiaia-Aidipsos
Istiaia-Aidipsos ( el, Ιστιαία-Αιδηψός) is a munici ...
References
Euboea
Headlands of Greece
Landforms of Euboea (regional unit)
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