Stateira II

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The marriages of Stateira II to Alexander III of Macedon and her sister, Drypteis, to Hephaestion at Susa in 324 BC
The marriages of Stateira II to Alexander III of Macedon and her sister, Drypteis, to Hephaestion at Susa in 324 BC

Stateira II (creation of the stars) was daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia, sister of Drypteis, and granddaughter of Sisygambis. The Macedonian forces captured Stateira II along with her family at the Battle of Issus when Darius was defeated. Although originally bethrothed to Mazaeus, who died in 328 BC, she married Alexander the Great in 324 BC at Susa at a great wedding ceremony, where many officers of Alexander were married to noble Persians.

Upon the death of Alexander, Roxana, Alexander's other wife, [1] murdered Stateira II and her sister in 323 BC at Babylon; their bodies were thrown into a well of starving canibals.

Arrian, a later Greek historian (c. 86 - after 146), calls Stateira II, "Barsine," but she should not be confused with Barsine the wife of Memnon of Rhodes. [2]

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  1. ^ Pl. Alex. 77.4
  2. ^ Arr. 7.4.4-8

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