Alexander The Great and Roxane

Roxana or Rukhsana (Persian: رخسانه ) is a female given name.

History

Roxana (Bactrian, Persian: Roshanak; Bactrian definition literally "luminous beauty" Persian definition "the dawn"), was a Bactrian noble and a wife of Alexander the Great. The Bactrian language is an extinct Eastern Iranian language which was spoken in the Central Asian region of Bactria. Roshanak (روشنک in Persian) is a traditional Persian name for a female "Bactrian" redirects here For the camel see Bactrian camel. Alexander the Great ( or, Mégas Aléxandros; July 20 356 BC June 10 or June 11 323 BC also known as Alexander III of Macedon (el Ἀλέξανδρος Γ' She was born earlier than the year 341 BC, though the precise date remains uncertain. Events By place Macedonia Philip II of Macedon completes his annexation of Thrace. She was the daughter of a Bactrian named Oxyartes of Balkh in Bactria (then eastern Persia, now northern Afghanistan), and married Alexander in 327 BC after he visited the fortress of Sogdian Rock. Oxyartes (in Persian: وخش‌ارد Vaxš-ard from Vaxšuvadarva was a Bactrian father of Roxana, the wife of Alexander of Macedon. Balkh ( - Balḫ) also known as Bactra, was once a major world city but was destroyed entirely by the Mongols. The Persian Empire was a series of Iranian empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau, the original Persian homeland and beyond in Western Asia Afghanistan /æfˈgænɪstæn/ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, Events By place Macedonian Empire Alexander the Great invades northern India. Sogdian Rock or Rock of Ariamazes, a fortress located north of Bactria in Sogdiana (near Samarkand on the northern Silk Road) was Balkh was the last of the Persian Empire's provinces to fall to Alexander, and the marriage was an attempt to reconcile the Bactrian satrapies to Alexander's rule, although ancient sources describe Alexander's professed love for her. See also the related deity Satrapes. Satrap (Persian ساتراپ was the name given to the governors of the Provinces of ancient Roxana accompanied him on his campaign in India in 326 BC. India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Events By place Macedonian Empire In the spring Alexander the Great crosses the Indus near Attock and enters She bore him a posthumous son called Alexander IV Aegus, after Alexander's sudden death at Babylon in 323 BC. Alexander IV Aegus (in Greek, Ἀλέξανδρος Aἰγός &mdash 323&ndash309 BC was the son of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon Babylon was a City-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which can be found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq Events By place Macedonian Empire 10 June — In Babylon, Alexander the Great dies ten days after being taken ill With the king's death, Roxana and her son became victims of the political intrigues of the collapse of the Alexandrian empire. Roxana murdered Alexander's other widow, Stateira II, and Stateira's sister Drypteis (Pl. Stateira II ( creation of the stars) was daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of Persia, sister of Drypteis, and granddaughter Drypetis or Drypteis (d 323 BCE is a princess of the Achaemenid dynasty in Persia Alex. 77. 4). Roxana and her son were protected by Alexander's mother, Olympias, in Macedon, but her assassination in 316 BC allowed Cassander to seek kingship. Olympias (in Greek, Ὀλυμπιάς; ca 376&ndash316 BC was an Epirote Princess, the fourth wife of the king Philip II of Macedon or Macedonia ( Greek grc Μακεδονία grc-Latn Makedonía) was the name of a kingdom centered in the northern-most Events By place Macedonian Empire Eumenes and Antigonus, rivals to Cassander for control of Macedonia meet in the Battle Cassander ( Greek: Κάσσανδρος, Kassandros; ca 350 - 297 BC King of Macedon (305 - 297 BC was a son of Antipater Since Alexander IV Aegus was the legitimate heir to the Alexandrian empire, Cassander ordered him and Roxana assassinated around 309 BC. Events By place Asia Minor Ptolemy personally commands a fleet that captures the coastal regions of Lycia and Caria

External links

• Livius.org: Roxane by Jona Lendering
• Wiki Classical Dictionary: Roxane, daughter of Oxyartes
• Roxana from Charles Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867)

Historical Novels

• Cave, A. J. Roxana Romance Pavasta: 2008, Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-9802061-0-4, eBook, ISBN 978-0-9802061-1-1