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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 her husband while he went to war. It was because of this that she was captured by Alexander the Great after the Battle of Issus, in 333 BC, at the town of Issus.
Stateira ( Greek: Στάτειρα; died 323 BC), possibly also known as Homa, was the daughter of Stateira 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.
Dec 27, 2016 · When Darius III died, Alexander allowed the family to keep their royal status. Stateira I became a widow, but she soon followed her husband to the grave - she died while giving birth in 332 BC. As previously mentioned, one of her children was Stateira II. Stateira II is better known as Barsine (only Plutarch mentions her by the name Stateira.)
- Natalia Klimczak
Depending on how you interpret the various ancient accounts as a whole, Sisygambis, not Stateira, could be interpreted as Darius III's sole link to the earlier Achaemenid kings. All that to say, we have no way of knowing how Stateira was involved in Darius' war plans, if at all.
Feb 8, 2024 · Darius' daughter soon after became Alexander's second wife in 324 BC. Unlike his marriage to Roxana, the marriage was strictly political, and as shown in season 1, episode 3, "Face to Face", Stateira's mother thought of him as a barbarian when he captured them. Alexander's third wife was a woman named Parysatis or Parysatis II. In a mass ...
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Stateira was the name of two royal women in the Achaemenid period, one the daughter of Hydarnes and wife of Artaxerxes II, and the other the sister and wife of Darius III. The former was influential and popular, but killed by Parysatis, while the latter accompanied Darius to face Alexander the Great.
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Stateira, possibly also known as Homa, was the daughter of Stateira 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. At the same ceremony Alexander also married her cousin, Parysatis, daughter of Darius ...
