At Susa Alexander held a feast to celebrate the seizure on the Persian empire, at which, in furtherance of his plan of fusing Macedonians and Persians into 1 master 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 of … Read More