At Susa Alexander held a feast to rejoice the seizure on the Persian empire, at which, in furtherance of his policy of fusing Macedonians and Persians into 1 learn race, he and 80 of his officers took Persian wives; he and Hephaestion married Darius’s daughters Barsine (also called Stateira) and Drypetis, respectively, and ten,000 of his troopers… Read More