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