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Roxana (died c. 310 BC, [1] Ancient Greek: Ῥωξάνη, Rhōxánē; Old Iranian: *Raṷxšnā-"shining, radiant, brilliant", Persian: روشنک, romanized: Rošanak) sometimes known as Roxanne, Roxanna and Roxane was a Sogdian [2] [3] or a Bactrian [4] princess whom Alexander the Great married after defeating Darius, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, and invading Persia.
Emperor Julian in his satire called "The Caesars", describes a contest between the previous Roman emperors, with Alexander the Great called in as an extra contestant, in the presence of the assembled gods. [291] The Itinerarium Alexandri is a 4th-century Latin description of Alexander the Great's campaigns.
Alexander IV (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος; 323– 309 BC), sometimes erroneously called Aegus in modern times, [3] was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) by his wife Roxana of Bactria. As his father's only surviving legitimate child, Alexander IV inherited the throne of the Macedonian Empire after him, however ...
Alexander died soon after receiving this letter; Mary Renault suggests that his grief over Hephaestion's death had led him to be careless with his health. Alexander was overwhelmed by his grief for Hephaestion, so much that Arrian records that Alexander "flung himself on the body of his friend and lay there nearly all day long in tears, and ...
They were treated well, and she became Alexander's second wife at the Susa weddings in 324 BC. At the same ceremony Alexander also married her cousin, Parysatis, daughter of Darius' predecessor. After Alexander's death in 323 BC, Stateira was killed by Alexander's other wife, Roxana. [1]
Olympias appears in Empire of Ashes: A Novel of Alexander the Great (2004) by Nicholas Nicastro; Olympias is a character in The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great (2005), by Steven Pressfield, told in the first person by Alexander. Olympias is the subject of Judith Tarr's 2008 novel Bring Down the Sun (Alexander the Great #2).
The Susa weddings were arranged by Alexander the Great in 324 BCE, shortly after he conquered the Achaemenid Empire. In an attempt to wed Greek culture with Persian culture , he and his officers held a large gathering at Susa and took Persian noblewomen in matrimony.
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