Picture No | 10006195 |
Date | 356 - 323 BC |
Description | Alexander the Great, King of Macedon, marries Roxana |
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Alexander the Great, King Alexander III of Macedon, weds Roxana, daughter of Oxyartes, a Bactrian chief whom he had defeated but now made an ally, 327 BC. Roxana bore him a son (Alexander IV Aegus), born after his death.
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Source | Andre Castaigne in 'Century', July 1899, page 408 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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