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See also:MAUSOLUS (more correctly MAUSSOLLUS) , See also:satrap and practically ruler of See also:Caria (377–353 B.C.) . The See also:part he took in the revolt against See also:Artaxerxes Mnemon, his See also:conquest of a See also:great part of See also:Lycia, See also:Ionia and of several of the See also:Greek islands, his co-operation with the Rhodians and their See also:allies in the See also:war against See also:Athens, and the removal of his See also:capital from Mylasa, the See also:ancient seat of the Carian See also:kings, to See also:Halicarnassus are the leading facts of his See also:history . He is best known from the See also:tomb erected for him by his widow See also:Artemisia . The architects Satyrus and See also:Pythis, and the sculptors See also:Scopas, Leochares, See also:Bryaxis and See also:Timotheus, finished the See also:work after her See also:death . (See HALICARNASSUS.) An inscription discovered at Mylasa (See also:Bockh, Inscr. gr. ii . 2691 c.) details the See also:punishment of certain conspirators who had made an See also:attempt upon his See also:life at a festival in a See also:temple at Labranda in 353 . See Diod . Sic. xv . 90, 3, xvi . 7, 4, 36, 2; See also:Demosthenes, De Rhodiorum libertate; J . B . See also:Bury, Hist. of See also:Greece (1902), ii . 271; W . Judeich, Kleinasiatische Studien (See also:Marburg, 1892), pp . 226-256, and authorities under HALICARNASSUS . |
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