Who is Artemisia from Strategy and what is their importance?

Artemisia is one of the two primary examples of women who also functioned as both political and military heads of state. Artemisia was used to show that, in her era, mercenaries were more commonly relied upon for warfare as it was, among other things, less expensive than maintaining a standing professional national military force or set of forces. She was a queen who used mercenaries for her country. The impression given is that, like the majority of the more old fashioned generals, she traveled with her military in order to lead from among them rather than from the great physical distances that the contemporary military forces tend to keep between the soldiers on the ground and the generals or Great Captains.