Alexander The Great Wife Barsine

Alexander was barsine s third lover and their affair may have been a grown up continuation of a childhood friendship.

Alexander the great wife barsine. Alexander s lovers by andrew chugg 131 4. After memnon s death several ancient historians have written of a love affair between her and alexander. After alexander s death 323 she had his second wife stateira barsine killed and she gave birth at babylon to a son alexander i. In 334 the macedonian king alexander invaded the achaemenid empire and he defeated darius in the battle of issus november 333.

Barsine was once a wife of memnon. However there may have been political considerations too. In 334 bc the year of alexander s invasion of asia she and her. When she saw alexander the great she knew that he was the best her option.

Barsine was a noble persian daughter of artabazus and wife of memnon. 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. Myth genesis and. After memnon s death of in 333 bc she felt she was free to look for another relationship.

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. Among the captives were darius mother sisygambis his wife statira his five year old son ochus and two daughters barsine and. Alexander s personal life was complicated nbsp we know that alexander married at least three women during his short life. Died 323 bc possibly also known as barsine was the daughter of stateira i 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.

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. And fell in love with his captive barsine for her beauty by whom he had afterwards a son that he called heracles. Roxane stateira and parysatis. Roxana wife of alexander the great.

She was also a daughter of the influential artabazus. Roxana of bactria was married to alexander the great in 327 bc. However that doesn t necessarily mean he had on going intimate relationships with all of them. At the same ceremony alexander also married.

After 330 alexander wanted to be recognized as king of persia and a persian wife would surely improve the acceptance of his rule. Barsine s father s reign was an unhappy one. Barsine became the wife of her uncle mentor and after his death married her second uncle memnon.