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    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...
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    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...
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  • the free dictionary. Stateira or Statira may refer to: Stateira (wife of Artaxerxes II) Stateira (wife of Darius III) Stateira (wife of Alexander the...
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    together. Alexander married three times: Roxana, daughter of the Sogdian nobleman Oxyartes of Bactria, out of love; and the Persian princesses Stateira and...
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    Roxana, the daughter of Oxyartes, in the first bloom of youth, and in the judgment of Alexander's companions, next to Stateira the wife of Darius, the most...
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    campaign. Alexander, who later married Stateira II, treated the captured women with great respect. Later, the Spartan king Agis III recruited the Greek mercenary...
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  • Parysatis II (category Wives of Alexander the Great)
    Alexander married Darius's eldest daughter, Stateira. By wedding both women, Alexander cemented his ties to both branches of the royal family of the Achaemenid...
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  • Alexander is a 2004 epic historical drama film based on the life of the ancient Macedonian general and king Alexander the Great. It was co-written and...
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    Sisygambis (category People associated with Alexander the Great)
    was routed by Alexander the Great, and the Persian king fled the field, leaving his extended family—including his mother; his wife, Stateira I; his children;...
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  • Porus (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Alexander the Great)
    killed by Roxane after Alexander's death in 323 BCE, as in real history. Based on Stateira II, second wife of Alexander the Great. Gurpreet Singh as Ambhiraj:...
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    Drypetis (category People associated with Alexander the Great)
    BCE) was the daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia. Drypetis was born between 350 and 345 BCE, and, along with her sister Stateira II, was a...
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    300 of his partisans are killed by forces loyal to Perdiccas. The first wife of Alexander, Roxana, arranges for Alexander's second wife, Stateira II (Barsine)...
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    Alexander the Great is a CinemaScope and Technicolor 1956 epic historical drama film about the life of Macedonian general and king Alexander the Great...
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  • Parysatis (category Queens consort of the Achaemenid Empire)
    Artaxerxes in a game of dice and having him flayed alive. Stateira was the wife of Artaxerxes II. Her brother, Terituchmes, loved one of his half-sisters...
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    Roxana (redirect from Roxana of Sogdiana)
    brother of Roxana to the elite cavalry. To encourage a better acceptance of his government among the Persians, Alexander also married Stateira II, the daughter...
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    to Alexander the Great, which resulted in the subsequent capture of his wife, his mother and his two daughters, Stateira II and Drypetis. Alexander's victory...
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    to Roxana, the daughter of a Bactrian chief, but Macedonian and Persian customs allowed several wives. Alexander himself married Stateira (sometimes called...
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    Hephaestion (category Generals of Alexander the Great)
    Chiliarch of the empire. Alexander also made him part of the royal family when he gave him as his bride Drypetis, sister to his own second wife Stateira, both...
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    wielding the sarissa pike, Philip II defeated the old powers of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC. Philip II's son Alexander the Great, leading...
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    Perdiccas (category Generals of Alexander the Great)
    Aristonous. Alexander the Great's second wife, Stateira, was murdered by Perdiccas, possibly at the urging of Roxana. Perdiccas also procured Alexander's "Last...
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    and companion of Alexander the Great. Her first language was Koine Greek, and she is the only Ptolemaic ruler known to have learned the Egyptian language...
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    Barsine (category Mistresses of Alexander the Great)
    Cassander to murder him. Barsine is sometimes confused with Stateira II, wife of Alexander, who also may have been called "Barsine". Carney, Elizabeth...
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    married Stateira, the daughter of the Persian nobleman Hydarnes, who was descended from Hydarnes, one of the seven Persian conspirators who overthrew the Pseudo-Smerdis...
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    Transcontinental royal intermarriage (category Types of marriage)
    instances of transcontinental royal intermarriage is the one between Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, and his three Persian wives, Roxana, Stateira and...
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    was King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire from 359/58 to 338 BC. He was the son and successor of Artaxerxes II and his mother was Stateira. Before ascending...
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    Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 16 February 2022. Badian, Ernst (16 November 2015). "Stateira". Encyclopædia Iranica. Schmitt, Rüdiger (15 December 1989). "Amestris"...
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    Achaemenid Empire, at the Battle of Issus. Darius escaped capture, but his wife Stateira I, his mother, Sisygambis, and his daughters Stateira II and Drypetis...
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    a number of wives. His main wife was Stateira, until she was poisoned by Artaxerxes II's mother Parysatis in about 400 BC. Another chief wife was a Greek...
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  • Spintharus of Corinth – architect Sporus of Nicaea – mathematician Stateira II - Persian daughter of Darius III and wife of Alexander the Great Stesichorus...
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    300 of his partisans are killed by forces loyal to Perdiccas. The first wife of Alexander, Roxana, arranges for Alexander's second wife, Stateira II (Barsine)...
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