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Stateira, being a young woman and therefore incapable of keeping anything secret, speaks of her love to a servant girl, known as Ermosilla, but who is actually Usimano, an Egyptian prince. He was in love with Stateira and came to Persia dressed as a woman to work in the service of the princess.
Stateira (Greek: Στάτειρα; 370 BC – early 332 BC) was a queen of Persia as the wife of Darius III of Persia of the Achaemenid dynasty. She accompanied her husband while he went to war. It was because of this that she was captured by Alexander the Great after the Battle of Issus , in 333 BC, at the town of Issus .
Stateira seems to have been his only legal wife despite his numerous concubines. She bore a son, Artaxerxes, the heir to the throne, and probably other children. [4] The queen's mother Parysatis and Stateira tried to be the key political influence on the king; so the women became bitter rivals.
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Stateira (Greek: Στάτειρα; died 323 BC), possibly also known as Barsine, was the daughter of Stateira and Darius III of Persia. After her father's defeat at the Battle of Issus, Stateira and her sisters became captives of Alexander of Macedon. They were treated well, and she became Alexander's second wife at the Susa weddings in 324 BC.
Depiction of the Susa weddings of 324 BCE: Alexander III marrying Stateira, daughter of Darius III; and Alexander's general Hephaestion marrying Stateira's sister Drypetis. The Susa weddings were arranged by Alexander the Great in 324 BCE, shortly after he conquered the Achaemenid Empire.