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