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'''Roxana''' ([[Bactrian language|Bactrian]]: [[Roshanak]]; literally "little shiny star" or "light"), was a [[Bactria]]n noble and a wife of [[Alexander the Great]]. She was born earlier than the year [[341 BC]], though the precise date remains uncertain. She was the daughter of a Bactrian named [[Oxyartes]] of [[Balkh]] in Bactria (then eastern [[Persian Empire|Persia]], now northern [[Afghanistan]]), and married Alexander in [[327 BC]] after he captured her when the fortress of [[Sogdian Rock]] surrendered to him. Balkh was the last of the Persian Empire's provinces to fall to Alexander, and the marriage was an attempt to reconcile the Bactrian [[satrap]]ies to Alexander's rule, although ancient sources describe Alexander's professed love for her. Roxana accompanied him on his campaign in [[India]] in [[326 BC]]. She bore him a posthumous son called [[Alexander IV of Macedon|Alexander IV]] Aegus, after Alexander's sudden death at [[Babylon]] in [[323 BC]]. With the king's death, Roxana and her son became victims of the political intrigues of the collapse of the Alexandrian empire. Roxana murdered Alexander's other widow, [[Stateira]], and Stateira's sister [[Drypteis]] (Pl. Alex. 77.4). Roxana and her son were protected by Alexander's mother, [[Olympias]], in [[Macedon]], but her assassination in [[316 BC]] allowed [[Cassander]] to seek kingship. Since Alexander IV Aegus was the legitimate heir to the Alexandrian empire, Cassander ordered him and Roxana assassinated around [[309 BC]].
Roxana refers to "genius"
==Portrayal in film==
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