Artemisium
{{Short description|Cape in Euboea, Greece}}
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Artemisium or Artemision (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον) is a cape in northern Euboea, Greece. The
hollow cast bronze statue of Zeus or Poseidon, known as the Artemision Bronze, was found off this cape in a sunken ship, as was the Jockey of Artemision, a bronze statue of a racehorse and its jockey.
The Battle of Artemisium, 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 Thermopylae, took place here. Part of the action of the film 300: Rise of an Empire was loosely based on this battle.
Archaeology
In 1928, an Ancient Greek shipwreck at the site was found containing artefacts including the Artemision Bronze, a statue either of Zeus or Poseidon, and the Jockey of Artemision, a bronze statue of a racehorse and its rider.
{{refn|{{harvnb|Woodford|1982|p=15}}; {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55341893 |title=Greek Statues: From the Sea |newspaper=Morning Bulletin |issue=20303 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=11 December 1929 |accessdate=26 August 2019 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}}}
In September 1952, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens made a return visit to the shipwreck, directed by George E. Mylonas, S. A. Dontas and Christos Karouzos. The excavation employed five divers and a sailing boat, the Alkyone, which was used to dredge the sea floor between dives. The project succeeded in re-locating the shipwreck, but did not recover any notable finds.{{sfnm|1a1=Meritt|1y=1984|1p=60|2a1=Vogeikoff-Brogan|2y=2021}}
See also
References
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Bibliography
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- {{cite book| last=Meritt| first=Lucy Shoe| year=1984| title=History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1939–1980| url=https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/uploads/media/ASCSA_HISTORY_MERITT_1939_1980_reduced.pdf| access-date=2024-01-13| publisher=American School of Classical Studies at Athens| place=Princeton| isbn=9780876619421}}
- {{cite web| last=Vogeikoff-Brogan| first=Natalia| date=2021-10-10| title=The Artemision Shipwreck: Sinking into the ASCSA Archives| website=From the Archivist's Notebook| url=https://nataliavogeikoff.com/2021/10/10/the-artemision-shipwreck-sinking-into-the-ascsa-archives/#more-5384/| access-date=2024-01-11}}
- {{cite book| last=Woodford| first=Susan| year=1982| title=The Art of Greece and Rome| place=Cambridge| publisher=Cambridge University Press| isbn=0521298733}}
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Category:Landforms of Euboea (regional unit)
Category:Underwater archaeological sites
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