Artemisia

Artemisia can mean:

Historic people

• Artemisia I of Caria (fl. 480 BC), queen of Halicarnassus under the First Persian Empire, naval commander during the second Persian invasion of Greece
• Artemisia II of Caria (died 350 BC), queen of Caria under the First Persian Empire, ordered the construction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
• Artemisia Gentileschi (1593–1651/1653), Italian painter

Botany

• Artemisia (genus), genus of plants including the sagebrush and wormwood

Geography

• Artemisia Geyser in Yellowstone National Park
• Artemissia, Messinia, Greek village west of Taygetus mountain in the Peloponnese
• Artemisia pipe, diatreme in the Northwest Territories, Canada
• Artemisia, Zakynthos, municipality on Zakynthos, Greece
• Kingdom of Artemisia, regional designation within the Society for Creative Anachronism

Historic ship

• Artemisia (ship), 1848, the first government immigrant ship to arrive in Moreton Bay, now Queensland, then New South Wales

The arts

• Artemisia (opera) (Venice, 1657), opera by Cavalli
• Artemisia (Dresden, 1754), opera seria by Johann Adolph Hasse
• Artemisia (Goldoni), unperformed 18th century play by Carlo Goldoni
• Artemizia, unfinished opera by Domenico Cimarosa, which he worked on until his death in 1801
• Artemisia (film), 1997 French film about the Italian painter
• Artemisia (Rembrandt), 1634 painting by Rembrandt
• Artemisia (album), 2007 album by the Dutch band Sun Caged

Fiction

• Artemisia oth Hinriad, character from the novel The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov

See also

• Artemesia, a genus of prawns
• Artemisa, a Cuban town
• Artemisa Province, a Cuban province