Stateira (wife of Alexander the Great)

[2] Historian William Woodthorpe Tarn asserts her official name was "Barsine", but she was likely commonly called "Stateira".

[5] Both of her parents were frequently described as handsome or beautiful, leading Tarn to speculate Stateira "was sufficiently good-looking, at any rate for a princess, to be called ...

Historian Elizabeth Donnelly Carney speculates that Alexander had already decided to marry Stateira and was preparing her for life as his wife.

[7] Stateira became Alexander's second wife in 324 BC, almost ten years after her capture, in a mass ceremony known as The Susa weddings[7] which lasted five days.

[8] At the same ceremony, Alexander married Parysatis, daughter of previous Persian ruler Artaxerxes III.

[9] It was fairly common practice for conquering rulers to marry the widow or daughter of the man they had deposed.

[6] By wedding both women, Alexander cemented his ties to both branches of the royal family of the Achaemenid Empire.