Stateira
Stateira († 323 BC ) was a Persian princess and one of the wives of Alexander the Great .
Life
origin
Stateira came from the Persian dynasty of the Achaemenids and was probably the eldest daughter of the Persian king Darius III. and his wife, who is also called Stateira . She was considered one of the most beautiful women in Asia .
captivity
Mother and daughter accompanied the Persian king with other high-ranking ladies of the court on his campaign against Alexander the great. After the Battle of Issus they were captured by the Macedonians (333 BC). After Tire was taken by the Macedonians, Darius III promised. as part of a comprehensive peace agreement, his daughter Stateira Alexander the Great as wife. Alexander ignored this offer, but treated the two Stateiras with the utmost courtesy. He left them in Susa while he waged the war further east to India. Later he married Stateira and Parysatis at a mass wedding in 324 BC. In Susa, where he also married 80 of his leaders and many of his soldiers to Persian women in order to promote his idea of merging. The Macedonian king himself married two daughters of the last Achaemenid kings in order to be able to legitimize himself more strongly as the successor of this Persian dynasty.
death
After the death of the Macedonian king (323 BC), Stateira and her sister Drypetis , who at the mass wedding at Susa had married Alexander's confidante, Hephaistion , who died soon after, were lured to Babylon by a forged letter and there at the instigation of Roxane , Alexander's first wife, murdered. The bodies of the two sisters were thrown into a well, which was then filled in.
family tree
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Artaxerxes II. 15th King, Regent of Persia |
Amestris princess |
Cyrus the Younger Prince |
? prince |
Ostane's prince |
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Artaxerxes III. 16. King, Regent of Persia |
Oh, prince |
Rodrogune princess |
Apama princess |
Sisygambi's princess |
Arshama II Prince |
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Arses 17th King, Regent of Persia |
Parysatis princess |
Oxathres prince |
Dareios III. 18th King, Regent of Persia |
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Alexander the Great, King of Macedon and Regent of Persia |
Stateira princess |
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literature
- Karl Fiehn : Stateira 3). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III A, 2, Stuttgart 1929, Col. 2171 f.
- Josef Wiesehöfer : Stateira [3]. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 11, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01481-9 , Sp. 920.
Web links
- Jona Lendering: Statira / Barsine . In: Livius.org (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Quintus Curtius Rufus 4, 5, 1; see. Arrian , Anabasis 2, 25, 1; Diodorus 17, 54, 2; Plutarch , Alexander 29
- ↑ Arrian, Anabasis 7, 4, 4
- ↑ Plutarch, Alexander 77, 6
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stateira |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Persian princess and wife of Alexander the great |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 323 BC Chr. |