At Susa Alexander held a feast to rejoice the seizure in the Persian empire, at which, in furtherance of his plan of fusing Macedonians and Persians into a single learn race, he and eighty of his officers took Persian wives; he and Hephaestion married Darius’s daughters Barsine (also referred to as Stateira) and Drypetis, respectively, and 10,000… Read More