Roxana (also Roxanne, Roxanna, Rukhsana, Roxandra and Roxane, (c. 340 – c. 310 BCE), daughter of Oxyartes, a Bactrian nobleman who served Bessus, the satrap of Bactria and Sogdia.
She was probably in her late teens or early twenties when she married Alexander the Great.
Her father was probably involved in the murder of Darius III. After Alexander the Great captured Bessus, Oxyartes continued to resist the Greeks. He took up a defensive position on the Sogdian Rock with the Sogdian warlord Spitamenes.
When Alexander took the fortress, he reportedly fell in love with Roxana on sight. He married her in 327 despite the opposition from his companions and generals. Alexander then appointed her father as governor of the Hindu Kush, then continued his march towards India. Alexander sent her to safety in Susa while the campaign continued. She fell pregnant after Alexander's return to Susa in 324.
After Alexander's death, Roxana is believed to have murdered his other widow, Stateira II, Stateira's sister, Drypetis, and her cousin, Parysatis II.
She then gave birth to Alexander's son, Alexander IV.
Roxana and her son were initially protected by her mother-in-law, Olympias, in Macedonia.
However, Olympias' assassination allowed Cassander to imprison mother and son in the citadel of Amphipolis with Glaucias as their jailer as Cassander set about establishing his claim to the Macedonian throne. Since Alexander was the legitimate heir, Cassander ordered Glaucias to poison Alexander and Roxana around 310.
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