For a long time, it was one of the wonders of the world, and its fame, solidly established, endures in the memory of men, just like that of Mausolus and the famous Artemisia.

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Artemisia II is a queen of Halicarnassus, who died in 351 BC. She is the sister and wife of King Mausolus. Artemisia is known for her deeds of valor as a naval strategist, commander, and for mourning her husband of whom she drank the ashes. She ordered the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus to be built.
Halicarnassus is an ancient city in Anatolia on the Aegean Sea, in the ancient province of Caria, now known as Bodrum, in southwestern Turkey.
Mausolus is a ruler of Caria of my Achaemenid Persia, a country in southwestern Asia Minor. At his death in 353 BC, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus was built for his glory.
Caria is a historical region in southwestern Asia Minor, located between Lycia to the east, Pisidia to the northeast, Lydia to the north, and the Aegean Sea to the southwest. It corresponds to the present-day region of Bodrum in southwestern Turkey.
The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus is the tomb of Mausolus. In antiquity, it was considered as the fifth of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Isocrates is one of the ten Athenian orators. He is the founder of a renowned school of rhetoric which trains many orators. He wins an eloquence contest organised by Artemisia after her husband's death to make him immortal.
Theopompus is a Greek historian, politician and orator.
Scopas is a famous Greek sculptor and architect.
Bryaxis is a Greek sculptor probably born in Athens in the first half of the 4th century BC.
Timothy of Epidaurus, also known as Timothy, is a Greek sculptor.
Leochares is a Greek sculptor of the second classicism, active from the 360s to the 320s BC.
Bucephalus is the horse of Alexander the Great, a remarkable conqueror of antiquity, and the only man who managed to tame him. He follows him in his conquests in Asia, and participates in the greatest battles.
Helen is, in Greek mythology, the daughter of Zeus, supreme deity of Greece, and Leda, Zeus' mortal mistress. According to legend, she is the most beautiful woman in the world, surpassed in this title only by the goddess Aphrodite, goddess of beauty.

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