Artemisium
place · 5 works · 7 mentions · 15 anchored passages
off Euboea
in the texts
The Histories
Beach and temple site on Euboea serving as the Greek fleet's station opposite Thermopylae.
So they came to Artemisium a second time and made their station there.
This strait leads next to Artemisium, which is a beach on the coast of Euboea, on which stands a temple of Artemis.
This pass they were resolved to guard and so stay the barbarian's passage into Hellas, while their fleet should sail to Artemisium in the territory of Histiaea.
On the Embassy
Site of a naval engagement of the Persian Wars, invoked by Aeschines alongside Salamis, Marathon, and Plataea as an ancestral achievement.
I urged that we should emulate the battle that we fought at Plataea, the struggles off the shores of Salamis, the battles of Marathon and Artemisium, and the generalship of Tolmides, who with a thousand picked men of the Athenians fearlessly marched straight through the Peloponnesus, the enemy’s country.
On the Crown
Naval battlefield invoked in the oath by ancestors.
I swear it by our forefathers who bore the brunt of warfare at Marathon, who stood in array of battle at Plataea, who fought in the sea-fights of Salamis and Artemisium, and by all the brave men who repose in our public sepulchres, buried there by a country that accounted them all to be alike worthy of the same honor —all, I say, Aeschines, not the successful and the victorious alone.
Panegyricus
The strait where the Athenian fleet engaged the Persian navy in coordination with the defense of Thermopylae.
while our ancestors sailed to Artemisium with sixty triremes which they had manned to oppose the whole armada of the enemy.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Site of the naval battle during the Persian invasion in which the Plataeans claim to have taken part.
Even though we are an inland people, we were present in the sea-fight at Artemisium, and in the battle fought in our territory we stood by you and Pausanias;