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ROXANA, or ROXANE

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 789 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROXANA, or ROXANE  , daughter of the Bactrian
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king Oxyartes, and wife of
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Alexander the
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Great . After the latter's
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death she gave
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birth at
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Babylon to a son (Alexander IV.), who was accepted by the generals as
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joint-king with Arrhidaeus . Having crossed over to
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Macedonia, and thrown in her
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lot with
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Olympias,
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mother of Alexander the Great, she was imprisoned by
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Cassander in the fortress of
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Amphipolis and put to death (310 or 309 B.c.) . The
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marriage of Alexander and
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Roxana was the subject of a famous
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painting by
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Aetion . See
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Plutarch, Alexander, 47, 77;
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Arrian, Anab. iv . 18, vii . 27; Diod . Sic. xviii . 3, 38, xix . II, 52, 105;
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Strabo xi. p . 517, xvii . P .

794 .

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