Stateira
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1 - Stateira, wife of Darius III of Persia of the Achaemenid dynasty. She was known as the most beautiful woman in Asia. Captured by Alexander the Great after the Battle of Issus, 333 BCE. Died giving birth or illness, still in captivity. Some sources suggest the father of the child might be a man other than Darius, Alexander perhaps (since no one would have been allowed to have sex with her, other than Darius).
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 The Great, 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).
