Who was the real Artemisia? How accurate is Frank Miller’s 300 Rise of an Empire?
Frank Miller’s 300 Rise of an Empire pits the Athenian general Themistocles against Artemisia, the great (but evil) Persian woman behind the great king of Persia, Xerxes. Themistocles is a well known historical figure, so we know he was real, but how about Artemisia? Did Frank Miller make her up, or was she a real person, too?