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The story goes that they raped and murdered
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her entire family.
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And then they turned their attention towards her.
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After years of being kept in the bowels of a Greek slave ship,
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she was discarded and left for dead
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where she was found near death by a Persian emissary.
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Artemisia vowed that day to return to Greece
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only when she could watch it burn.
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She was fed, clothed,
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trained by the finest warriors of the Persian empire
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until no match could be found
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for her skills and gift with the sword.