1 - Stateira, wife of Darius III of Persia of the Achaemenid dynasty. Captured by Alexander the Great after the Battle of Issus, 333 BCE. Died giving birth, still in captivity.

2 - Stateira, daughter of Stateira-1 and Darius III of Persia. Sister of Drypteis, and granddaughter of Sisygambis. Captured along with her family at the Battle of Issus. Married Alexander III of Macedon. Originally bethrothed to Mazaeus, who died in 328 BCE. Murdered in 323 BCE by Roxana (Pl. Alex. 77.4). Arrian calls Stateira "Barsine" but she is not to be confused with Barsine the wife of Memnon (Arr. 7.4.4-8).

External Links

• Pothos.org - Stateira, mother and daughter
• Livius.org - Barsine/Statira

4th century births | 333 BC deaths | 323 BC deaths | Achaemenid dynasty | Persian queen consorts | Alexander the Great | Murdered royalty | Multiple people | Women in ancient wafare

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