Alexander The Great Wife Barsine

When she saw alexander the great she knew that he was the best her option.

Alexander the great wife barsine. She was also a daughter of the influential artabazus. Barsine was once a wife of memnon. In 334 bc the year of alexander s invasion of asia she and her. Roxane stateira and parysatis.

However that doesn t necessarily mean he had on going intimate relationships with all of them. Among the captives were darius mother sisygambis his wife statira his five year old son ochus and two daughters barsine and. After 330 alexander wanted to be recognized as king of persia and a persian wife would surely improve the acceptance of his rule. In 334 the macedonian king alexander invaded the achaemenid empire and he defeated darius in the battle of issus november 333.

Alexander was barsine s third lover and their affair may have been a grown up continuation of a childhood friendship. Roxana wife of alexander the great. Myth genesis and. However there may have been political considerations too.

However roxana was not his only life as alexander married darius iii s daughter barsine stateira ii and her cousin parysatis in 324 bc in a mass wedding at susa where many of. Barsine s father s reign was an unhappy one. Alexander s personal life was complicated nbsp we know that alexander married at least three women during his short life. Barsine daughter of artabazus barsine was by birth a minor princess of the achaemenid empire of the persians for her father artabazus was the son of a great king s daughter 197 it is known that his father was pharnabazus who had married apame the.

Barsine became the wife of her uncle mentor and after his death married her second uncle memnon. The daughter of the bactrian chief oxyartes she was captured and married by alexander in 327 during his conquest of asia. After memnon s death several ancient historians have written of a love affair between her and alexander. Alexander immediately showed his interest in marrying roxana and got married to her in 327 bc prior to his expedition towards bharat.

And fell in love with his captive barsine for her beauty by whom he had afterwards a son that he called heracles. At the same ceremony alexander also married. Barsine the noble wife of persian legend. 363 309 bc was daughter of a persian father artabazus satrap of hellespontine phrygia and a greek rhodian mother who was the sister of mercenaries mentor of rhodes and memnon of rhodes.

Roxana of bactria was married to alexander the great in 327 bc. After alexander s death 323 she had his second wife stateira barsine killed and she gave birth at babylon to a son alexander i. Alexander s lovers by andrew chugg 131 4.