Artemis I, queen of ancient Halicarnassus, is almost unknown to the general public. Hollywood paid him a unique tribute in 300: The Birth of an Empire, the American film by Israeli director Noam Murro, in 2014.
But this Artemise of cinema, poisonous lover of the Athenian strategist Themistocles, has little to do with reality. To touch it, we must return to the texts of Herodotus - more poet than historian - who recounts his achievements forty years after the battle of Salamis in 480 BC.