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56 HISTOKY 01? CARIA.
of two years did not enable her to see the completion
of the magnificent structure which she had com-
menced, but the artists who had been employed
continued their work after her death, till it was
finished; and, if we are to believe Pliny, this was
a labour of love, carried out with no other reward
than the fame it won them.
Artemisia was succeeded by her brother Idrieus.
He appears to have been employed by Mausolus2 to
reduce the people of Latmus, from whom he took
hostages. In an inscription51 of the city of Tralles,
Idrieus is mentioned as satrap in the seventh month
of the seventh year of Artaxerxes Ochus. This state-
ment, however, cannot be reconciled with received
chronology, for the latest epoch to which the date
of the inscription can be brought down will not fall
below April or May, B.C. 351. Now we know that
Artemisia was still living when Thessalus was
archon at Athens,1' and his official year did not com-
mence till after May, B.C. 351.
In explanation of this discrepancy it has been
suggested that one of the numerals has been omitted
either by the lapidary, or by the transcriber of the
inscription, or else that Idrieus was named satrap
of a portion of Caria during his sister's lifetime.
The first of these seems the more probable suppo-
sition.
We find from Demosthenes0 that Idrieus was in
2 Polysen. vii. 23. The Idrieus mentioned by Plutarch, Agesil.
§ 13, seems to he the same person,
a Boeckh, C. I. No. 2919.
b Demosthen. de Rhod. Libert, p. 193.
c De Pace, p. 63; cf. de Rhod. Libert, p. 121.
of two years did not enable her to see the completion
of the magnificent structure which she had com-
menced, but the artists who had been employed
continued their work after her death, till it was
finished; and, if we are to believe Pliny, this was
a labour of love, carried out with no other reward
than the fame it won them.
Artemisia was succeeded by her brother Idrieus.
He appears to have been employed by Mausolus2 to
reduce the people of Latmus, from whom he took
hostages. In an inscription51 of the city of Tralles,
Idrieus is mentioned as satrap in the seventh month
of the seventh year of Artaxerxes Ochus. This state-
ment, however, cannot be reconciled with received
chronology, for the latest epoch to which the date
of the inscription can be brought down will not fall
below April or May, B.C. 351. Now we know that
Artemisia was still living when Thessalus was
archon at Athens,1' and his official year did not com-
mence till after May, B.C. 351.
In explanation of this discrepancy it has been
suggested that one of the numerals has been omitted
either by the lapidary, or by the transcriber of the
inscription, or else that Idrieus was named satrap
of a portion of Caria during his sister's lifetime.
The first of these seems the more probable suppo-
sition.
We find from Demosthenes0 that Idrieus was in
2 Polysen. vii. 23. The Idrieus mentioned by Plutarch, Agesil.
§ 13, seems to he the same person,
a Boeckh, C. I. No. 2919.
b Demosthen. de Rhod. Libert, p. 193.
c De Pace, p. 63; cf. de Rhod. Libert, p. 121.