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In Naples for the first time Artemisia started working on paintings in a cathedral, dedicated to San Gennaro nell ' anfiteatro di Pozzuoli ( Saint Januarius in the amphitheater of Pozzuoli ) in Pozzuoli.

* Artemisia Teatro Terra di Velletri

According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.

* Idrieus, the second son of Hecatomnus, succeeds to the throne of Caria on the death of Artemisia II, the widow of his elder brother Mausolus.

* Artemisia, Queen of Caria and sister and wife of King Mausolus of Caria

The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus ( in Greek, ) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC at Halicarnassus ( present Bodrum, Turkey ) for Mausolus, a satrap in the Persian Empire, and Artemisia II of Caria, who was both his wife and his sister.

Halicarnassus was the location of the famed Mausoleum dedicated to Mausolus, a satrap of Caria between 377 – 353 BC, by his wife, Artemisia.

* Mausolus, King and Persian satrap of Caria, dies and is succeeded in 352 BC by Artemisia, his sister and wife.

At first he appears to have composed epideictic speeches, in which he attained to such proficiency that in 352 ‑ 351 he gained the prize of oratory given by Artemisia II of Caria in honour of her husband, although Isocrates was himself among the competitors.

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Batrachomyomachia ( Ancient Greek:, from, frog,, mouse, and,, battle ) or the Battle of Frogs and Mice is a comic epic or parody of the Iliad, definitely attributed to Homer by the Romans, but according to Plutarch the work of Pigres of Halicarnassus, the brother ( or son ) of Artemisia, queen of Caria and ally of Xerxes.

* Artemisia I of Caria, an early female military leader

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Artemisia II of Caria ( in Greek, Ἀρτεμισία ; died 350 BC ) was a sister, the wife and the successor of the king Mausolus.

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He won the prize eight times, on one occasion with his tragedy, Mausolus, in the contest which the queen Artemisia of Caria had instituted in honor of her dead husband, Mausolus.

Artemisia, queen of Caria

Pigres (), a native of Halicarnassus, either the brother or the son of the celebrated Artemisia, satrap of Caria.

Ada was the daughter of Hecatomnus, satrap of Caria, and sister of Mausolus, Artemisia, Idrieus, and Pixodarus.

He created the sculptures on the north side of the mausoleum of Maussollos at Halicarnassus which was commissioned by the queen Artemisia II of Caria in memory of her brother and husband, Mausolus.

Artemisia painted a second version of Giuditta che decapita Oloferne ( Judith beheading Holofernes ), this one larger than the Naples version and now housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence.

In 1630 Artemisia moved to Naples, a city rich with workshops and art lovers, in search of new and more lucrative job opportunities.

Naples was for Artemisia a kind of second homeland where she took care of her family ( both her daughters were married in Naples ).

Of his late works for the stage only two works gained wide popular esteem during his life, Palmira, regina di Persia ( Palmira, Queen of Persia ) 1795 and Cesare in Farmacusa ( Caesar on Pharmacusa ), both drawing on the heroic and exotic success established with Axur.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

Musicologists believe that, true to form, the music for Il Barbiere di Siviglia was composed in just under three weeks, although some of the themes in the famous overture were actually borrowed from two earlier Rossini operas, Aureliano in Palmira and Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra.

* Maria Stuarda regina di Scozia ( 29 May 1821, Teatro Comunale, Bologna )

* Caritea, regina di Spagna ( Donna Caritea ), ossia La morte di Don Alfonso re di Portogallo ( 21 February 1826 Teatro La Fenice, Venice )

Pacini's successes during this time period include La fidanzata corsa ( Naples, 1842 ), Maria, regina d ' Inghilterra ( Palermo, 1843 ), Medea ( Palermo, 1843 with several later revisions, the last of which was in Naples in 1853 ), Lorenzino de ' Medici ( Venice, 1845 ), Bondelmonte ( Florence, 1845 ), Stella di Napoli ( Naples, 1845 ) and La regina di Cipro ( Turin, 1846 ).

* Rognoni, L., " Presenza e azione di Ælfgifu di Northampton, regina madre e reggente nell ' Impero del Nord di Canuto il Grande ( 1013 – 1040 )" ( in Italian )

# Nitocri, regina di egitto

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Two of the films, Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste ( translated as Colossus and the Head Hunters ) and Maciste e la regina di Samar ( as Hercules against the Moon Men ) appeared on the comedy television program Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the 1990s.

* Hercules Unchained ( Ercole e la regina di Lidia / Hercules and the Queen of Lydia, 1959 ) starring Steve Reeves

* Hercules Unchained ( 1959 ) ( Ercole e la regina di Lidia / Hercules and the Queen of Lydia ) released in USA 1960

His last screen role was as the giant Antaeus alongside Steve Reeves in Hercules Unchained ( USA Title, filmed in Italy, 1959, original title Ercole e la regina di Lidia ).

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