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Episode 77: Artemisia and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

Half-Arsed History

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The Story of Mausulus and Atamesia

King Mausulus took over as king in 377, and his queen is none other than Atamesia, his sister. He went right ahead and married his sister, yep, I mean, how different were they really? It's still bloody incest, even if it's over, over bloody two millennia ago. Idrias and Ada also got married, another pair of siblings from the previous King Hecatomnas,. They also got married as well, which means poor old buddy Pixodaris, he's having to download ancient era Tinder on a stone tablet or something.

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