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ROXANA, or ROXANE

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 789 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROXANA, or ROXANE , daughter of the Bactrian king Oxyartes, and wife of Alexander the
Great
 . After the latter's death she gave
birth
  at Babylon to a son (Alexander IV.), who was accepted by the generals as
joint
 -king with Arrhidaeus. Having crossed over to Macedonia, and thrown in her lot with
Olympias
 ,
mother
  of Alexander the
Great
 , she was imprisoned by Cassander in the fortress of Amphipolis and put to death (310 or 309 B.c.). The
marriage
  of Alexander and
Roxana
  was the subject of a famous
painting
  by Aetion.
See Plutarch, Alexander, 47, 77; Arrian, Anab. iv. 18, vii. 27; Diod. Sic. xviii. 3, 38, xix. II, 52, 105; Strabo xi. p. 517, xvii. P. 794.


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