Parysatis (wife of Alexander the great)
Parysatis ( old Persian Parušyatiš ) was in the 4th century BC. A Persian noblewoman and from 324 BC One of the wives of the Macedonian king and Egyptian pharaoh Alexander the great .
Life
Parysatis was the youngest daughter of the Achaemenid king Artaxerxes III. She accompanied King Darius III. on his campaign against the Macedonians, but after the battle of Issus (333 BC) with her mother and her sisters in Damascus they fell into the hands of the victorious Alexander the Great, who she met at the mass wedding at Susa (324 BC) .) married Stateira , the eldest daughter of Dareios III.
Notes and individual references
- ↑ Arrian , Anabasis 7, 4, 4; Quintus Curtius Rufus 3, 13, 12
literature
- Karl Fiehn: Parysatis 2). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XVIII, 4, Stuttgart 1949, Col. 2052.
- Parysatis [2]. In: The New Pauly. Vol. 9, Col. 381.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parysatis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of the Macedonian king Alexander the great |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 333 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 324 BC Chr. |